TERRIBLE WELSH RAILWAY SMASH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 January 1921, Page 3

TERRIBLE WELSH RAILWAY SMASH.

Twenty Feisons Rilled. EXPRESS ANl> SLOW TRAIN COLLIDE. tßy Electric Iciugrapii—C’opyriiiov , U'er Press As-sociaium - Louden, January 20. *A railway collision occurred ut Ao rmule, Wales, between an express and a slow itrain. Twenty arc de-act, including Lord Herbert Vane Tcaqmsi, a director of the railway on widen tim disaster occurred. Eeiunteou were injured. The scene of the disaster is a lonely spot in tbe Welsh hills, through winch runs a single track railway, run oi the block -tablet system. It is rot Vknown why the slow,, train Lie Ab-.r-mule, insieo-.' of .waiting lor the- express as usual. The trains met within a bundled yards of a bend in the lint', «lrk*h obscured the view. The fireman and driver of th© express whistled, put on the brakes, and) Dun jumped, from the footplates almost at the moment of collision. Tluy were only sliglitly injured, while the driver and fireman ol Die slow train Were killed. Iso niels© on th© slow train was badly hurt. The deaths are practically confined to the second and third coaclus of Du 1 express, which were telescoped by '.iniirst and fourth coaches of the expr The engine of the slow train stood up".:! the debris of the express to a lioighi; of twenty feet. It took five hours to extract some of th© passengers. One man got out at the previous station to buy a newspaper, but was unable to roach his own carriage, where his wife was ti avelling. Ho jumped from the roar of the carriage, and was unliurt, v. in!r his wife was killed.

own carriage, where his wife was ti avelling. Ho jumped from the rear of the carriage, and was unhurt, v. hiking wife was killed. Two boys, sous of Mr A. L. Onslow, and nephews of Lord Onslow, tx-Gov-ernor of Now Zealand, were kill'd. They were going to Harrow School. Received this day, 9.20 mm. London, .lannnry 27. Official.—The casualty H in h’ Welsh railway disas’er was si: ", p ed and sixteen injured, two crticWy.