CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH
POSEN STATION RAILWAY SMASH.
SEARCH BY DEMENTED MOTHERS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright ' Warsaw, Dec. 16. One of the trains involved in the Posen station accident was'full of children going to school. Apart from the two coaches flung from the viaduct many children were pinned down by wreckage and were slowly frozen to death. When the news spread hundreds of mothers rushed to the scene. Some went insane while searching in the wreckage. The death roll is not 'known, but it is official report. It was previously reported that 14 were killed and 80 injured, mostly children, when a train leaving the Posen station crashed into a stationary train awaiting a starting signal on the same line.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1933, Page 5
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