GRETNA TRAIN SMASH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 8

GRETNA TRAIN SMASH

JEATH ROLL'^Qr gy N pP,ED •CAtTSES J^r jjgjj AcCpENT.

3? OABMJ-PEBBB AaaOCIATION-COPTWOHT. (Eeceived May 25, 12.30 p.m.) '. LONDON, May 24.. _ The estfinated death roll in connection with the, Gretna, tr,ain collision is two hundred. It was customary to shunt the local train on to the western siding to allow the Euston express to pass, but the siding was occupied by a goods train, so the signalman sent the Ideal to tv eastern signal. "While going therr .{*** troop train crashed into it ar "Lla the apparatus for moving unworkablf,, and it was, i mpossib f e to stop the express. *^ Fifty out of fir „ hundred Royal Scots were unscathed.