THE RAILWAY HORROR

Evening Star, Issue 15281, 5 September 1913, Page 6

THE RAILWAY HORROR

MAY LEAD TO CHANGES.

A TRAGIC RECOGNITION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopyrißht. LONDON, September 4. Experts are emphatic in declaring that the result of the accident will bo to compel tho railway companies to consider the question of tho substitution of .steel-built carriages. A ninth body has been identified. A juryman, during an inspection of the sceno, picked lip a steel rule, which he took to the lurkby-Stephen station, where a woman happened to bo inquiring for her husband She-immediately recognised the rule, and then fainted. NO HOSPITAL, DOORS JAMMED, EXriNG.UISHERS~I)ID NOT WORK. (London Times-Sydney Sim Special Cable.)

LONDON, September 3. In one,case the only clue to tho identity of a man who was wearing a- gold watch chain was some specks of nicked gold, which were embedded in tho roasted ilesh. In another case a girl's necklace gave the only trace of identification. Tho nearest hospital was at Carlisle, 40 miles away. One rescuer states that all the carriage doors became jammed, and the efforts of 20 men were unable- to open them. Many of the official tire extinguishers failed to work.

The company state that they arc willing to moot all reasonable claims' promptly. The President cf the Trades Union Congress at Manchester sympathised with the sufferers. He stated that the catastrophe showed _ the responsibility attaching to all industrial undertakings. (Received September 5, at 8.30 a.m.) Sir Arthur Douglas (stays on at the Carlisle Infirmary. He shows a flight improvement. THE COMING INQUEST. NO CROSS-EXAMINATION OP WITNESSES. LONDON, September 4. (Received September 5, at 12.50 p.m.) Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P.. is to be permitted to attend the Aisgili inquirv if he is silent. Mr Paget, the Midland Railway Company's superintendent, intimated that he did not intend to allow the crossexamination of witnesses, as was done at the Hawes disaster inquirv. 'The. railwavmen implicated in the Aisgili collision do not. desire- that Mr Thomas should represent them. Mr Thomas protested against the men ignoring the union leaders' wishes.