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TWO TRAINS COLLIDE SIX COACHES TELESCOPED EIGHT KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED LONDON, Feb. 14. A head-on collision ff two trains occurred at Hull. Six coaches, containing many school children and business men, were telescoped. Eight were killed and 30 injured. The disaster was due to the Scarborough express crashing into the Withernsea local express, filled with scholars and business men on their way to Hull. The crash occurred half a mile from the station opposite the workhouse. The inmates of the workhouse, with amazing quickness, cut a hole in a wall through which the injured passengers were carried and given attention by the workhouse doctors and nurses. The most tragic incident was the case of a father and two sons named Estreet, who arrived at Withernsea station as the train was moving out for HulL The father said they could not catch it, but the older son sprinted and scrambled aboard the train. His was the first body extricated from the wreckage, just as the father and brother arrived by a later train. Though the first carriage was filled with schoolboys, only one was killed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7
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