THE HAWES ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9404, 31 December 1910, Page 3

THE HAWES ACCIDENT.

DEATH KOLL THIRTEEN

(Bi Electrio Telegraph—Copybight.) (Pee Pbess Assooiation.) LONDON, Dec. 30. It is believed that the Hawes' death roll will total thirteen.. Though no relatives have enquired regarding a woman, the doctors believe that female bones have been dis-

covered. . A passenger has written; to tlie Coroner stating that he saw a young woman imprisoned in the debris and held her hand for a few seconds. _ Sutton, the signalman, gave evidence at the inquest as to sending two engines on the main line in order to make way for another tram. His attention being distracted by the telephorie, he omitted to signal the engines to' proceed to Carlisle, and thus caused the disaster. He was fully occupied" in moving the nine -lip* engines frotn one side, to thg other, and by passing trains on to the. mam lines. He did not attribute it to lapse of memory or excessive' work. His mate came to the signal box and asked wljere the engines were.Sutton telephoned to the next signal box, and realised that a -tragedy had occurred, 'and said, "I have wrecked the Scottish express." . , .