SHOCKING DISASTER
United Service.
motor coach catches fire Four People Incinerated.
LONDON, April 28. Four were buruod to death and fif teen cseriouslv injured when a motor coach travelling to lleading from London took fire and overturned uear Alaidenliead at one o'clock 111 the morning. Tlie hodies were so c-harred that it was impossible to dctei'mine whether they were men or women. The condition of most of the injured is believeu to be critical. A loud explosion heralded the disaster. Flames mounting twenty feet, visible for two miles, burst from the fore part of tlie coach, while travelling at a fair speed and spread with astonisliing rapidity. Trapped passengers liroke the windows and tore the liood. The terrilic heat drove back motorists attenipting to assist tliem to oscape. Scarcely oue cmerged uninjured.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 8
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132SHOCKING DISASTER Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 8
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