INSTANCES OF HEROISM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 4

INSTANCES OF HEROISM.

SOLDIERS' COOL HEROISM LESSENS DEATH ROLL. (Received May 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. Une hundred end seventy bodies havebeen recovered atQuinton Hfll, including those of two little girls. A dozen of the injured succumbed in , hospital and four in the ambulances. I The King sent a message of sympathy and urgent enquiry regarding thesufferer;?. One hundred a:nd twentyfour people were seriously injured. It was eight hours before the flameswere master.^, and firemen at nine o'clock at night were still pouring wateron the wreckage During morning the rescuers 'found an officer lying under a hean of" wreckage. He Psked a soldier, "Can you see n»e?" and on receiving a reply in the affirmative, j-lie officer continued, "Well, I am .nlive and can stand rt for sotta time, but don't forget mealtogether." . ' - Commander Ouphant, in command of'" a naval contingent, was nboardthe express. He freed himself and climbed" the roof of a burning carriage to release n Territorial. The roof collapsed" and. Oliphant disappeared into a raging furnace. The sleeping section of the expresswas telescoped. A consensus'of opinion holds that themajority of those buried in the wreckase were den* before the flames reached them The patience with -whichr those imured a^d penned down await^cT rescue is described as s^mirable. The fleath roll w/^ild have been* heavier but for the soldiers' cool discipline.