SCOTTISH EXPRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1931, Page 5

SCOTTISH EXPRESS

RESCUE WORK CONTINUES. \ (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON. .March 23. Though a thick log hampered rescue work, it was continued throughout the night. One of the injured under the wreckage died alter lighting for hours for life, keeping up a running conversation through a breathing hole and partaking occasionally of sips o! brandy, while the rescuers worked feverishly. Saltmarshe’s body lias not yet been recovered. The dead engine driver. Hudson, was one. of the Company s most experienced drivers, and had driven the King and other Royalties.

Ju/st before 1 the departure, a passenger admiring (the engine remarked that it was a wonder that such a mammoth locomotive could keep on the line. Hudson replied:—“The faster we go, the firmer we hold the rails.” FURTHER DETAILS. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. The actual denthroll in connection with the Royal Scot disaster, becomes six, with the demise in hospital of Dorothy Lang on the first day of her nineteenth year. She was returning from a holiday in Italy. She was pinned for three hours under the wreckage, her bead sufpported in her mother’s lap. Oxygen was administered to both, who though agonized, displayed great fortitude, The dining ear attendant showed great presence of mind, saving many •JiyOiS when he rushed to the kitchen and turned off the gas, preventing an -(explosion, before he leaped off the train. j The task of obtaining the names ot the victims was completed amid fog, at Leighton Buzzard station early tills morning when Saltmarsii was identified by. his son. He was going to Clyde to view the phosphate steamer Tuona, shortly sailing for Nauru.

The railway station offices resemble a shop, owing to the presence of pas* afengqm’ personal belongings, awaiting claimants. Both fast tracks have been cleared by breakdown gangs, who fed the wreckage to a bonfire for light and warmth, while four 120 ton cranes juggled with piles of debris into something approaching order, waving an engine tender aloft ns if it were, toy work. The clearing of fifty yards of the slow track is proceeding. King George • sent a message of sympathy to Sir Josiah Stamp, Chairman of thp London Midland Scottish railway.