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SIX LIVES LOST IN LONDON TRAIN DISASTER

TRAINS COLLIDE ON UNDERGROUND

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London, May 18.

A collision causing the loss of six lives occurred on London Underground Railways, yesterday, when two trains on the Dis- trict Line were in collision near Charing Cross Station.

One train was stationary. The other, travelling at 25 miles As A result, sixty persons jan hour, ran into the rear of it.

were injured;

Sixty persons were injured; Traffic during the peak of the morning rush hour was Organised; and

from his country house at Bracknell. neur Ascot, to the City.

of

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NAMES OF DEAD

Wreckage was strewn

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The Eames of the eight Injured passengers detained in tospital are:

Henry Norbruk. Nassau-road.

Barnes,

Frederick Gilchrist, Bramble-tye, Burgess Hill.

Mrs. Palmer, Lochnager-street, Popla:

William Diprese, Crossways, Hes-

Ion,

Italph Tatlock, Hookfield, Epsum:

Johns, Henry

Fairfield-drive, Dorking:

M. Hermike -Ileaton, en N. M Rothschild and Soto,

William Bindery. Brunswick - sajlare. Hove.

M: Henniker-Heaton is a nephew ST Herbert Henniker -Heaton Commander-in-Chief and

M Herbert Luck, a student from|of| Berlin, staying at Autol-manstone, Guvernu

W.. was traerling th The last caeringe of the Colony of the Falkland Islands. on the taff of N M Roths- of the front traite the and that lip He Is was tending his paper when he heart) child and Sons, the merchant bankers 201

Cash and felt a terrific jolt

lines and rest urrs were hampered by the lack of space It was nearly three hours before all the dend and Injured could be removerl killer wen 45

Think!

"I was oocked unconsektus," he continued.

JUDGE AND HIS CLERK

in the crash.

M When I ease to myself.

No matt Birkett heard that Mr found that I was sitting in darkness. Gilchrist, derk to Mr. Justice Chorles, "Whats calling out, Keep had been injured when he arived at where you are untri the current is the Law Coats after his own escape Majo Richard Farden,

The cut or

The embarke Alled with Claftons. Royal George-road, Binj gess Hill, Sussex, a path in the and for a while it was Arm R Fardin and Sons, suk breathe By the light of hand torches

I was able to see that the door was I will adjourn for a short while. agents, Gresham-street

The roof was dosen in shreds"

also

PREDICTS NAZI COLLAPSE

Thomas Mann, exiled Gerion author, who predicted at the University of Toronto that the Nazi regime in Germany would

1943. enllapse by

He plans apply for American citizenship

Soon.

FLEEING PRISONER

IS HIT BY

A LORRY

A young prisoner who had escaped. from the eclis in Sittingbourne (Kent) Police Station

being chased by police and crowds through the main street when he collided with

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As he entered the Chart, the judge a lorry and was seriously hurt. sinoke, difficult to, fed to him and said

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with me for 30 years"

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When the Cout insumed the Judge sad that he had en informed that the condition of Mr Glebrist was not serious

Mi Erie Gallatly. New Cavendish-littered with broken glass, and many feel rather anxious

street, W., partner in the arm of people had been cut by flying splin Jolin Gullatly and Sons. timber tera agents, Arthur-street, R.C M. D M. Jephson-Norreys, 33, of

EXPLOSION IN TUNNEL Mallow Castle, ro. Cork, Lord of

of Mallow and the Manor

Miss Winfred Bevan, a secretary Gresham House, Old Broad-street, employed in a City office, who was in

David Frank Sturdee, 19. is the fist compartiment of the seeund. medheal student of Guy's Hospital, train, said she was reading is news- whose home WAS in Castle-rand, paper when the crash occurred. She

was thrown or to the opposite seat.

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44, the explosion, Cromwell-road Earl's Court.

FIRST FATAL CRASH

FOR 31 YEARS

PREVIOUS ACCIDENTS

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An ollierad of Lancion Transport stated that this the first fatal ecident un 10 Underground since 1907, when a man was killed at West Hampstead during shunting spera with ones,

she added, and the tunnel was hit up with dames from

We were left Mr. George Joseph Walls. 50. of some fused wires.

came Hassocks, Surrey, managing deck darkness unti porters to a London Arm of sofritors. lamps to help us, Mr F. Gilchrist, clerk to Mr Justice i Charles, was injured

among

but

"We were told to walk back to those badly Charing Cross Station, but we had to Mr Norman Birkett, KC,tand site several times to allow and Lord Hyndley, who is a director stretcher enses to pass by. Altogether of the Beak of England, were inval-we were in the tunnel three-quarters!

of an hour." ved in thr avcident,

escaped of

One of the unjured was imprisoned j Injury

for two hours under the wreckage of the last coach. More thats 40 met st thed tu drag the wreckage away with Epes, but hydraulic Jacks had to be obtained before he could be free

Although many

TELESCOPED COACHES Landor Transport unnamed night that only nine of the injured hudd been detained in hospital

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Other accidents were. March, 1938-Twelve injured in colli- sion between two trains on Morden- Edgware line between Waterion; and Charing Cross,

January,

1932, Two

from Baron's Court in collision outside Hammersmith station No ore i7-

Jured January, 1925.—Driver and guard hurt when two empty trams collided at Strand station

September. 1912-Collision between,

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being:

The scene in the tunnel after the badly unserved by their experience. Tia report of the inquiry into the crash was one of utmost confusion. The two rear coaches of the front me of them insisted on helping in, accident

The train were partially telescoped fore end of the last roach and the rear end of the one in front were pressed against the root of the tunnel. One side of the last touch burst outwards. The lending couch of the sband train reboundert several feet after the crash, the driver's cabin being telescoped,

A nurse, Bithough suffering badly from shock herself, worked smilingly. Among the slightly injured passengers i She placed them in comfortable pos1- tons until they could be taken to the ambularers,

Government Cannot Find Big-Job Man

two-month search the

chuirmati for the company

La causing concern

The youth, Ronald Chapman aged nineteen, was given first aid tra 2 shon, then taken to hospital. He was found to have internal injuries,

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Chapman had passed two police Pork on his way out of the station Among the leaders. of the crowd who chased him was the Rev

Pitman, a loca) curate.

THEFT OF MOTOR-CYCLE

The youth had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment an charge of straling a motor-cycle and driving without a licence and unin- sured He asked for the theft of four other motor-cycles to be taken inlu eunsideration.

"The police are convinced he alofe four other motor-cycles while on bail. and a var last night," a police witness told the Bench. "But he

nat does admit these thefts It is an obsession with thus mun, and the money and tune he has cost the pulter are difleuli to assess **

BRITAIN'S PERFECT

MAN

London

Blond, broad-shouldered, six-foot, twenty-three-ycat-uld Tom More- land, a London clerk just adjudged Britain's perfect man, may be the idol of Une girls, but to his two sisters he is just a big sap.

Lord Ashfield, chairman of thel It WHE some ime before the

Landon Passenger Trussport Board, driver, who had received leg Injuries Mr Frank Piek, vice-chairman, and After

Proclaimed physically perfect could be extriented. Most of the Mr. J. P. Thomis, general manager|rawernment and Imperal Airways when he won the 1938 championstup dead were in the two rear carriages of the railway section, hurried to the of the stationary train

Club, Mareland has a chest-measure- Oxy-acetylene flames were used to rene son after the crash and in-king for a new full-time of the British Health and Strength The appointment was one of the ment of 44 inches and he weighs 175 gut way wreeing to free the the spected the wreckage,

Mr. Lesbe Burgin, Minister <if

recommendations [ the Cadman pounds. jtared. Morphta was administered 10

Transport, snit Col. A. H. C. Trench. Committee { Inquiry Krite Civil Questioned as to his view of life, many of theny

Ministry of Transport Inspecting Aviation, Issued on March 8, and the Mareland, who is a bachelor and has Officer of Ballways, also visited the delay

among the profile of a Greek god, said:

"No drinking or smokingg. I keep it was unneed last night that! Questioned in the House of Cum-fit by weight-lifting, swimming and tutes to the behaviour of the women, the Ministry of Transport had op mens.

Colonel Muirhead, Under-constant exercise. nearly all of whom remained calm pointed Col. E. Woodhouse, one of Secretary for Air, sald he could not while waiting in the darkness the Inspecting Oflicers of Railways, give a date when the appointment help. Even when a blinding dush) to hold an inquiry Into the accident. would be matte. Audi burst of Aume, immediately after the crash, raised the ery of No date has yet been fixed.

The was no panic. fumes were caused by fuses blowing out.

WOMEN'S CALMNESS Fellow-passengers paid warm tri-

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reche.

IMPIA

'NOT AN EASY TASK"

"Girls? I never look at a girl who uses cosmetics.

his

PREFERS NATURAL GIRL Augmented bus services were able

"Give me a natural girl who doesn't with the crowds of home- lo. cope

Both the Government and the com- drink or smoke or go to night clubs. word-bound

City

and West End pany were extremely anxious that a 1 am still looking for her. That's workers who usually travel on the full-time chairman should.be.appoint- why I am not engaged." SOS messages to hospitals and District Line without serious delayed, but it was not an easy thing to When Tom talks in this strain, police stations brought stream of

do.

however, Valerie Marlund, rescuers-white-coated doctors and or congestion yesterday evening.

Special 'buses were running at the Sir Percy Harris (Lib. Bethnal twenty-three-year-old sister gels medical students from Charing Cross rate of about one a minute carrying Green, S.W.): is it really suggested mod. and Westminster Hospitals, burkes,

season-ticket holders affected by the there is not one man in the country "Just listen to the conceited Aremen and ambulances.

closing of the line from St. Jame's capable of taking the job, which is

puppy," she said. "Just because all Scores of stretchers were taken to Park to Aldgate East,

so urgent?

the girls run after him he thinks he's the seeus, and the underground plat- The delay was greater for those Colonel Muirhead did not reply.

marvellous." forms beenme casualty clearing bound eastwards. At Chudng Cross Asked what steps had been taken

Taking out her lipstick, she added. stations.

and Ludgate Circus big crowds of to put into effect the Cadman Report Louise, my sister, and I use lots of

'bus stops recommendation Many of the passengers who were people gathered at the

with regard to slightly injured refused to enter the during the height of the "rush hour." pilots representation, Colonel Muir make-up. We love parties and night bores us to feurs. ambulances. They were given first- but few had to wall more than about head said a ballet of Imperial Air-clubs. Exercise

on the platform at 10 minutes.

ways plats would be held shortly to We have no time for keeping f”

Said Louise: "The girls may go air treatment Charing Cross Station before they

determine what form of representa-

crazy about Tom, but to us he's just went to their homes.

tion they preferred.

another brother. If he's the perfect specimen we don't think much of the judges. He's just a big up."

PASSENGERS' STORIES

Dramatic stories of their experi-i ences were told by passengers.

WELL-KNOWN MEN AMONG VICTIMS NAMES OF INJURED

Mr. Edward Gregory, of Cam- Mr. Deamond Jephson-Norreys, one bourer-avenue, West Ealing, whose of the victims, was a member of a hend was cut,

In the cast of British Airways a Joint committee of three representa- tives of the management and three pilots had been set up.

said that he was well-known Irish family. Te was Harvesters Set Record

in the middle couch of the first train. educated at Eton and New College,

"I was standing near the front of Oxford. the carriage," he said, "when the

Melbourne.

In 1911 be acceeded to the pro- A crew of three men, operating an train stopped with a jerk. I decided porty of his cousin, the late Katherine autoheader, which strips wheat grains to sit down, and had hardly taken Louisa Jephson-Norreys.. Its estate and bags them in one operation, has my seat when there was a crash in in Ireland Included the enstle and established a world record near here hy harvesting 3,000 bushels in one the rear of the train.

town of Mailow. "When I recovered, I and the man! Mr. Gailntly was a son-in-law of day. The wheat tract covered 700 next to me were on our Itnees on the Mr. Marshall, of the firm of Marshall) neres with a yield of 43 bushels to ******* nest, tum weekure of the roof and Snelgrove. He was travelling the acre.

Tel. 13501.

Teachers Express War Views

Oshkosh, Wis. Eighty-one per cent, of the students at Oshkosh Slate Teachers College are ready to shoulder arms in de- fence of the United States, but only 10 per cent would fight abroad, survey of 484 of the college's (30 students indicates.

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