Evening star., 1952-10-09
Is More Bodies Duu
From British Wreck
Bring Death Toll 10 "a
BY the Assoeioted Press

HARROW, England, Oct. 9.-At
least 13 bodies were dug today
from deep in the debris of triple
train crash. bringing the death toll
of the second worst rail disaster
in British history to at least "a.
All of the victims were found in
side two splintered coaches at the
bottom of a 50-foot mound of
debris piled up by yesterdays fam
tastic collision of two expresses
and suburban train in the Har-
row rail station.
Meanwhile, one of the many in
tured died in a hospital.
Rescue workers, some of whom
had been on duty since soon after
the crash yesterday morning,
reached the center of the wreckage
mound shortly before noon.
Doctors said the first basket of
mangled bodies taken from one
coach were those of at least three,
and possibly f1ve, persons.
Coach Sheared by Locomotive.
A locomotive from one of the
three trains sheared straight
through the coach yesterday, re-
ducing most of its wooden Struc-
ture to Splinters.
A government investigation al
ready was underway to discover
the cause of the accident-Brit-
aims worst train disaster in 81
years-in which two fast express
es piled into jam-packed COM
muter train in front of the rail-
road station in this suburban
town during yesterdays morning
rush hour.
At least three Americans pos
sibly were among the dead.
Donald G. Woodall, an Ameri-
can Serviceman attached to al
United States Air Force mainte-
nance depot in Britain. was listed
among those killed. In Washing
ton the Air Force gave his ad-
dress as East st. Louis, III. Al
Mrs. Jean Woodall-presumably
his wife-also was listed as killed.
Mrs. Nettie Lawrence, of Green
Island, N. Y, was listed as miss
ing. Her husband, Thomas Law
renee. who was pulled out of the
wreckage uninjured, told rescuers:
Il tried to pull my wife towards
me and couldn't. She kept say
ing, I can't move"
1000 Passengers on Trains.
The three trains involved in the
crash carried more than 1000 per-
Sons-many of them school chill
dren. Some 600 were jammed
into the local commuter train
when a Standardization ex-
press thundered at 70 miles an
hour into its rear coaches as it
stood in Harrow station.
A minute after the Splintered
commuter coaches we're Strewn
over the tracks, a northbound ex-
press out of London ploughed
through the wreckage from the
opposite direction.
United States Air Force medical
personnel from nearby bases
helped in treating the injured
and getting them off in ambu-. !,
lances to nearby hospitals.
Hacking and cutting through
the debris, rescue squads man.
aged just before dawn today to
lift the locomotive of the north i
bound express of the track.
Wreckage Cleared Carefully.
The wreckage was cleared away
with almost surgical delicacy in
the remote hope some of the pas
Sengers might still be alive despite
the passing of more than "a hours.
Twice before railway officials
declared there could be no more
survivors and twice were proved
wrong. Yesterday afternoon a
survivor was pulled out alive
after being buried for eight hours.
Again this morning an injured
passenger was removed alive after
% hours inside wreckage which
had been attacked by pickaxe and
acetylene torches.