THE ANTWERP TRAIN SMASH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 5

THE ANTWERP TRAIN SMASH.

fRANTIC AND GHASTLY STRUGGLE. 40 KILLED; 80 INJURED. [PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] it . BKUSSELSJtfay 22. r?> Details of the Antwerp oollisiou show that the victims -were mutilated aiid crushed in a ghastly maarner, several being decapitated. 4 severed Land was found, the " clenched fingers wherecf were held tight to an ear which had been torn off. There was a frantic struggle amonjr the wreckage. " Of the tangled mass forty were killed and eighty injured. The signalmen has fled. The victims were mofrtJy peasant pilgrims irom Turn Wat fibrin© The signalman, who was arrested, became suddenly demented The collision "occurred in fche village •of Contich. near Antwerp. The Brussels express was mistakenly turned on a Riding where a crowded pilgrim train vas waiting. The exprest. engine was thrown on the top of the pilgrim train, several carriagee. A. number or young girls, dressed in white for +ii& £rst communion, wer.e killed.