THE DEATH ROLL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14917, 16 March 1914, Page 7

THE DEATH ROLL.

IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT. SOME SAD FEATURES. (Received March loth, 5.5 t>.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. J/ater advices state that confusion rtill exists as to the identification of the killed and injured.

Latest advices, giving a corrected list of those killed, are:— Mr Heaver, senior. Arthur Heaver. Alice Heaver. Mail Guard Bray. J. C. Minnis. Mrs Minnis. • G. L. Pollard. Mrs Clarke. Fred Kurzenhagen. Miss Eglington. Miss Shelley. , Mrs L. Parker. A youth supppsed to t>9 named Walker. A woman believed to be Mrs hagen.,Nineteen injured are in hospital at Bowral, and are progressing favourably. The disaster is the most terrible in the history of the New South Wales railways. Report states that at the moment -f the impact, the goods train was being shunted on to a siding to clear the main line, and thus allow the Temora mail train to pass. A dense fog obscured the signals, and the mail train crashed into the goods train, telescoping two carriages. Neither engine left the rails. The first arrivals state that the scene was one of indescribable horror. The mail van was reduced to matchwood, and there were ghastly heaps of human beings, screams and groans from the imprisoned victims coming from the mass of debris. The saddest feature was that the Heaver family was travelling to Cootamundra to bury Mrs Heaver, senior, whose body wae on the train. The widower, a daughter, and daughter-in-law were killed, and a son seriously injured. Bray, the guard of the mail train, wae in the van, and about to throw out a mail bag. He was killed, while Iris mate, in the same carriage, escaped. . Another sad case was that of a father, mother and three young children, who were buried in debris. The eldest appealed piteously to the mother for holp, and she replied, "Love, I cannot help." The children were ultimately rescued, but the parents were dead.