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injured people to Durban. Rescue teams searched for survivors. 81 passengers were directly killed, while some sources wrongly stating 150 casualties. The death toll rose to 84 and days later to 87 passengers after injured people died in hospital. There were 130-200 injured passengers. The disaster was at the time the deadliest rail disaster of South Africa.
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In August 1966 the Durban court convicted three people for the murder on
Hartslief. The president considered it proven that the three were part of the group of approximately 100 people who had attacked Harslief, under the assumption that he was the driver of the train. Four were acquitted due to lack
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One of the survivors shouted after the accident “It's the
Europeans who planned this murder of our brothers”. The white 25-years old signalman Walter Wilfred “Wally” Hartslief ran from the nearby train station to the disaster scene to help. When he arrived at the scene, minutes after the disaster,
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Victims were scattered over 300 meters along the railway line. Another hundreds of passengers were trapped between the debris. Police, nurses, doctors and first-aiders were called over the radio to go to the disaster site. Over forty ambulances were involved in the rescue operation and brought the
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him. Another railwayman was also beaten up. He was seriously injured, was hospitalized but survived. Walter
Wilfred Hartslief was 25 years old and was married. 2000 black Africans gathered for a
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were suppressed. It was generally known that transportation of black
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towards the disaster scene. It was estimated 100,000 attended the funeral of the 87 black workers.
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to the disaster scene. Because of that the Durban police sent additional reinforcements.
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and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a
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an angry crowd of around 100 people held him accountable for the disaster and
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681:"Wisselwachter vermoord | Bij spoorwegramp in Zuid-Afrika ruim 80 doden"
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Hartslief was also buried. His grave stone is still visible.
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It was the deadliest railway accident in South Africa.
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397:"Treinongeluk in Zuid-Afrika kost 80 levens"
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777:"Begrafenis slachtoffers treinramp Durban"
635:"Het aantal slachtoffers van de treinramp"
611:"Ruim 80 doden bij treinramp in Z.-Afrika"
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454:"Zuid-Afrika | 84 doden bij treinongeluk"
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483:"Treinramp in Durban: 150 doden"
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909:Derailments in South Africa
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939:Transport in KwaZulu-Natal
847:Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
507:"Treinramp in Zuid-Afrika"
402:Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
366:"Gelyncht na de treinramp"
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738:Twentsch dagblad Tubantia
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24:1965 Durban rail disaster
859:Elm Park, United Kingdom
639:Gereformeerd gezinsblad
109:lynched white signalman
194:South African Railways
144:South African Railways
66:South African Railways
757:"Bantoes veroordeeld"
924:1965 in South Africa
865:Durban rail accident
853:Sudan rail collision
662:Algemeen Handelsblad
229:Lynching and protest
196:5:28 with 1200-1500
934:October 1965 events
712:graves-at-eggsa.org
589:De Nieuwe Limburger
285:1973 Durban strikes
106:87 black passengers
686:Leeuwarder Courant
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782:De Waarheid
459:De Waarheid
903:Categories
861:(29 March)
291:References
246:Court case
168:Background
96:at least 2
85:Passengers
72:Statistics
215:Aftermath
174:Apartheid
155:signalman
136:Apartheid
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126:apartheid
717:25 March
274:See also
261:KwaMashu
205:KwaMashu
202:township
42:Location
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318:Delpher
255:Funeral
236:lynched
119:130-200
116:Injured
88:c. 1500
54:Country
29:Details
209:Durban
101:Deaths
77:Trains
47:Durban
616:Trouw
512:Trouw
265:Natal
198:black
148:black
62:Owner
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