The Archive · 1924

LANCASHIRE

Twelve Passengers Killed and 33 Injured: An Appalling Disaster don, Now Twelve persons have been ilia and Injured through the d [railment st the engine of the Liver pool-Blackpool express between feu Green and Lytham, The engine dashed ini w sisewal box which wax completely Nov. 4.

Phe tatest reports of the train smash indicate cifieulty fying the bevies, very dots though Ghousands of help-hundreds of motorcars the di the of the White Star 1

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Many were texvibly in wre invetved. One tated snd "another obliged to have x ey amputated. The signal box was smashed Signalman was hhrook below and escape Later.

Rwelve were killed and 33 injured in the Lytham disaster. Commander Charles Greame most courageously insisted upon other suitorers being attended to before himself.

The scene of the catastrophe way appalling. Bloodstained limbs could

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