London, Aug. 24.
Eleven persons were killed and 50 injured by the derailment of Southern Railway train on its way Sevenoaks. from London to Deal, to-day, near
The engine and all except three coaches turned turtle.
The rails were torn and twisted.
'A Pullman swung round right) across the track and was completely smashed.
A passenger travelling on the! train said that the first intimation that anything was wrong was a sudden rocking while the train was proceeding at high speed and sudden grinding and tearing noise as though the train had jumped the! metals, The train wobbled. Then there was a deafening crash and all the passengers were thrown from their seats, Then followed the piercing shrieks of frightened women and children. ral doctors who were on the train immediately rendered first aid, Nurses, ambulances and police seemed to spring from nowhere.
Saws, hammers and crow-bars were used to extricate the victims, 'A young woman's legs had to be amputated before she could be ex-tricoted and another woman was so mutilated that the pieces of her body were picked up and placed in Four persons injured in the wreck, including a child, died subsequently, bringing, the death-roll to 15.
About 30 persons are seriously' injured.
Later.
It has now been established that] twelve persons were killed in the train disaster near Sevenoaks.—-
Reuter.
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