RAILWAY DISASTER

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1925, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTER

IN WEST GERMANY. MANY LIVES GOST. (Received January 14 at 11.25 p.m. BERLIN. Jan I.'. A train disaster occurred in Westphalia at Herne Station, where a Berlin express to Cologne ran into a .stationary train. The driver cf the e.xprcs failed to see the danger signal owing to fog and <larkn<‘ss. Twenty three were killed nnd fifty injurml, all of whom were passengers in the stationary train. The collision was 50 violent that twelve people in the last coach wore smashed to pulp, and their bodies could only be 'dintified by means of documents in -li.* porkers. All the occupants of th- List t'vo coaches were killed insant ly Tne subsequent scenes were most harowing The Herne Station was littered with bloodstained debris. A pathetic imident was one wherein a child with its arm torn off was searching for its dead mother. A similar accident occurred at the Lettingen Station in the Ruhr, ’n which three persons were killed and several Injured. An accident also occurred a- Puisberg, an engine being in collision with a passenger train.