TWENTY-FIVE DEAD NOW
SMASH WORST IN HISTOEY OF' > STATE.
(Received 14th September, 3 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
The railway smash at Blandford was tho worst in the history of New Soujfch Wales. Darkness added to fhe horrors and difficulties of the situation. Huge fires from the debris of the carriages and bush timber soon lit up the scene by all its awfulness. The sound of tho. crash woke residents in the surrounding district, and the news spread rapidly. Motor-cars and other vehicles poured in with helpers and other rssistanee, including doctors. Nurses were sent from Scone and Murrurrundi.
The work of rescuing the wounded pinned in the wreckage and threatened with a still worse death from fire till the burning wood was quenched, prpceded under the direction of four doctors, who were among the passengers in the mail train. The groans and cries 6t the wounded, many of whom were terribly mangled, were s heart-rending. ' • As sooxl as they were rescued, they1 were dispatched to the hospitals. ' The latest reports make the total of dead 25. .
All the Northern railway traffic ii badly delayed as the result of the accident.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 8
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