GRINDING OF BRAKES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 72, 26 March 1938, Page 11

GRINDING OF BRAKES

THEN A GREAT CRASH

The south-bound Limited was delayed at.Marton in order to pick up half a. dozen of the passengers on the excursion train who wished to return to Wellington, and was half an hour late.

One of the passengers, Mrs. Staveley, of Wellington Road, Kilbirnie, was knocked unconscious, and acid from a burst battery entered one of her eyes. She emerged from the train wearing a bandage over the eye, but though pale, and evidently suffering from her injuries, was cheerful, and kind enough to give a "Post" reporter her impressions, and a smile.

"All I can tell you," said Mrs. Stayeley, "was that there was a grinding of brakes, and then a tremendous crash. I was in the third carriage from the engine, and it was crumpled up. The first two carriages were telescoped to a greater extent, and it was in these that the people were killed. The remaining carriages forming the train were to all appearances, undamaged. The accident was wonderful in one respect: there was no panic that I saw at all."

Another young woman who returned by the Limited had a black eye, but was quite cheerful.

The other four passengers were more elderly and declined to give their v impressions of the tragedy.

All the passengers were taken into the stationmaster's office on arrival, and the injured examined by a doctor in the railway ambulance room.