Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-03-05 | Page 5 | Britain Probes Subway Deaths of 178

Britain Probes Subway i Deaths 0 of I LONDON March 5 W UP Two M-Two Two constables were assigned to the en en- en ices of ot all deep subway shelters shelters shelters shel shel- Friday and other precautions were announced as officials Investigated investigated investigated the tle London shelter disaster Wednes Wednesday night in which persons persons persons per per- sons were suffocated or crushed to death and at least 60 others injured injured injured in in- di ring a German Gennan air raid The ministry of home security summoned all regional and local air raid protection officials to a conference and King George VI ordered a separate inquiry into the tragedy which developed when a middle-aged middle woman with a baby and a bundle fell on the crowded flight of ot st steps ps and a pushing crowd piled plied up about her The woman was rescued from Ci- Ci pile but her baby was suffocated suffocated The Installation of extra lights a at entrances entrances' and a and n d immediately within shelters has been ordered and middle rails will win be constructed construct construct- ed to divide stairways leading down into shelters Many families were wiped out in the disaster and about 60 of the dead were children G. G H. H Davis one of the survivors said Although I was at Dunkerque Dunkerque Dunkerque Dun- Dun I have never seen anything BO so terrible As I squeezed through the door to the top of the stairs I saw bodies piled plied two and three deep A man with a small baby in his arms was killed His wife stood by powerless to help Another witness Thomas Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son said People seemed to be piled plied up waist high on the stairs We had to stand on unconscious pe people to gel gee ge them out out