EXPRESS TRAINS TELESCOPE.

Northern Advocate, 3 September 1913, Page 5

EXPRESS TRAINS TELESCOPE.

INDESCRIBABLE SCENE OF HORROR. WRECKAGE TAKES FIRE. SEVERAL PASSENGERS BURNT TO DEATH. (By Telegraph-Press Aflsn.-CopyrigHt) LONDON, Sept. 2. The Glasgow express stopped at 3 o'clock this morning for want of steam near the top of Aisgill summit (Yorkshire) in pitch darkness. The Aberdeen express, at. full speed, dashed into the rear of the stationarytrain with terrific force. The engine penetrated the end of one carriage and smashed several others. An indescribable scene followed. Wild screams came from many persons pinned beneath the wreckage. Rescuers were unable to extricate them on account of the wreckage catching fire. It blazed furiously, lighting up the darkness and driring back the workers. Several passengers were burned to death, including two children, whose mother was also seriously inured. Sir Arthur Doxiglas, a retired New Zealander, who was imprisoned in a burning carriage, had a terrible experience. He was badly burned and is in a critical state.

Many others suffered from burns, and were injured in other ways, a number seriously. One woman's hands were cut off. The uninjured passengers joined in the rescue work. Some recognised relatives among the killed and injured. . One lady was horrified at the discovery of her dead husband. The rescuers saw a hand amidst the flames frantically but vainly beckoning for help. Thirteen bodies, mostly adults, including one woman, were recovered but were unrecognisable. Many of the passengers were asleep at the time of the collision and some had narrow and exciting escapes. It is recorded of one passenger that he. would have been in a burned carriage but he changed at Carlisle into another. LONDON, Later. Fifteen persons were killed, Secluding the driver and fireman.