RAILWAY DISASTER IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9027, 4 November 1892, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTER IN ENGLAND.

THE SCOTCH EXPRESS IN COLLISION. THIRTEEN LIVES LOST. Press Association.-Electric Tdegraph.--Oopyr(gM, London, November 2. : The Scotch express, travelling southwards, came into collision with a goods train at the Manor House siding. , All but two carriages were completely consumed by a fire which broke out. Eight persons were killed, and eleven injured, and it is feared several others perished in the flames. The sufferers were taken to the Thirsk Hospital. The accident occurred during a fog, when the train was running a mile per minute. Lords Tweeddale and Huntly, who wore asleep in a Pullman car, had a narrow escape. Later. Over one hundred passengers were on the south express train which collided near Thirsk. Several of these had booked for Australia by the steamer Oratava, including Captain Duncan McLeod, of the 42nd Regiment, who was killed, and S. P. Brodie, who was seriously injured. Two of the carriages were piled upon the engine and burnt, but the other carriages were not consumed. Altogether thirteen persons were killed. Lord Tweeddale expresses the belief that the signalman was asleep. The accident happened at four o'clock in the morning. ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION. FIFTY PERSONS INJURED. London, November 2. Fifty persons were injured by a collision on the Mersey Railway.