GRUESOME AND HORRIBLE SIGHTS.
BODIES MANGLED OUT OF
DESCRIPTION.
The noise 'of the collision was so great that it roused tlie whole neighbourhood.
Around the platform it was quite dark, and it was impossible for the injured passengers, as they rushed up a.nd down in excitement, to avoid trampling or tumbling over tho dead and wounded. 'Hie first ambulance train to arrivo brought Dr. Percy a.nd a. con« of railway ambulance workers, who provided first aid and requisite*;. As their lanlterns began to flit about tho platform, a terrible ecene was displayed. It was a gruesome horror to sco tho bodies of women and men, with their features battered out of rcee_nition and limbs mangled, as they lay about tiie platform. One corpse, with its head completely torn off, lay closo by tho mangled body of a mother with a dead baby clasped in her arms. The body of a man was hanging up between two 01 the carriages in such a position that for a long time the workers could do nothing to extricate it. It was with tho greatest difficulty that many of tho beaks could be extricated at all, as they wero im pa let! on tho ends of sharp splintered woodwork. A number of tho injured aro likely to succumb.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13096, 22 April 1908, Page 7
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