RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1925, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

COLLISION IN DARKNESS

TWENTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, BERLIN, Jan. 13. Further details have been received of the railway disaster at Herne station, Westphalia, where the morning express from Berlin, to Cologne collided with a stationary train. Twenty-three people were killed and fifty injured. The driver of the express failed to see the danger signal owing to the fog and darkness. All the killed and injured were passengers in the stationary train. The collision was so' violent that twelve people in the last coach were smashed , to pulp and the bodies could only he identified by documents in their pockets. All the occupants of the last two coaches were killed instantly. The subsequent scenes were, most harrowing The station was littered with blood-stained debris. A pathetic incident was one in which a. child with an arm torn off was searching for its dead mother. OTHER ACCIDENTS. A similar accident occurred at Hettingen station in the Ruhr, in which three persons .were killed and several injured. An accident also occurred at Duisberg Ligst, an engine coming into collision with a passenger train.