WORST ON RECORD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 16 March 1914, Page 5

WORST ON RECORD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

THE DEATH ROLL.

In a late edition on Saturday we published news or the terrible ruilwav Accident in New South VVales. The following telegram gives further details.

MY CABLB— PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, March 15. X«ater advices state that contusion still exists in the identification of the lolled and injured in the disaster. The latest advices give the corrected list of the killed as follow: Heaver, sen., Arthur Heaver, Aiice Heaver, Mail Guard Bray, J. C. Minnis, Mrs Minnis, «. li. Pollard, Mrs Clarke. Fred Kur*enhagen, Misses Eglinton and Shelly, Mrs L. A. Parker, a youth supposed to .J» named Walker, and a woman believed to be Mrs Kurzenhagen. NineJ±een were injured and placed in hospital, at Bowral, where they are progressing favorably. 4 The disaster was the most terrible an the history of the New South Wales railways.

Reports state that at the moment «f impact the goods train was being shunted on to a siding to clear the main lino and allow the Temora mail to pass. Dense fog obscured the sigJial, and the mail crashed into the train, telescoping two carriages. JNeither engine left the rails. First arrivals state the scene was «ne of indescribable horror. The mail T*n was reduced to matchwood, and I;nere were ghastly heaps of iuman beings , and screams and groans of the amprisoned victims coming from the anass of debris! ' 1

A,, very sad feature was that the Heaver family were travelling to Oootamundra to bury, Mrs Heaver, senior, whose body was on the train. The widower, his daughter, and daughter-in-law were killed, and the son seriously injured. Bray; the guard <en the mail van, was about to throw ■the mail bag, and was- killed, while his ornate in the same carriage escaped. Another sad case was that. of a father, mother, and three young childTen buried in the debris. The eldest appealed piteously to the mother for ielp, and she replied, "Love, I cannot help you!" The children were ultimately rescued, but the' parents are dead.