HEROIC.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2873, 17 February 1916, Page 3

HEROIC.

INCIDENT IN A RAILWAY SMASH. BY KMSOTHIO TEtKQHAI'H. — COrilUCUi. I'EU rnEHS AHBOCUTION. Sydney, I'Vbruary 10The accident, to the Lamiceston express at Colebrook occurred at a. curve. , Many passengers were piunvd down I)V the debris lor a loini time beiore they were released, the relief tram not arriving for Iwo hours. Driver (ioodch.U,d, after leaving the cab, realising the danger of the l»oiler exploding, heroicaly < rawled back and turned oIV the cocks, at the cost of a very severe scalding. Tho injured include Iwo Anglican rlergymou—'the Rev. Mr Anderson < Viet'oria) and the Rev. Mr Raker ( Lauijecston). The killed are: -Mrs 11,.we1l (President, of the Oeel.mt!. V.W.C.A.), Miss Harrass (of ill.- Ib-ndigo Association), and I , rival.-; l,tuiiin anil Hal], tho la.st.-nanied being two of ;1l.) soi-die-rs who were returning u> camp from final leave. Later. -Driver (ioodchild has sueeimibod. i'hough alntoeb the whole of the skin was scalded oil hi: , , body and lie was suffering agony, he said to the rescuers,. "Leave me, mates go to the others."