BLIZZARD CONTINUES
MOUNTAINOUS SEAS STEAMERS AND TRAINS DELATED A FATAL COLLISION. By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright LONDON, January 13. Tho blizzard continues. The Cunard liner Mauretania has been delayed at Liverpool for twentyeight hours. The White Star liner Celtic is at Queenstown. She reports that on her trip from Now York sho encountered mountainous seas. Tier speed was reduced, and oil was poured on tho waves. The High Peak (Derbyshire) railway has A) eon blocked for throe days. Thouof workmen at tho Peak stono quarries are idle. The Leicester express collided, whilo travelling at a speed of fifty miles an hour, with a Walsall train at Bromford lane. Both were wrecked. Throe persons woro killed. A woman and a child were injured. The accident is attributed to tho snow affecting tho signals. Enow broke an electric wire at Sheffield, which fell on to tho tramway, receiving a high charge of electricity. Two horses and their drivers sustained shocks, and were unablo bo escape. Two workmen, who ran to their rescue, wore also struck down. Two others then took off their overcoats, stood on one, and threw the other to the stricken men, who wore hauled out of danger.
OVERWHELMED AND PERISHED.
(Received January 14, 11.46 pun.) LONDON, January 14. Several persons were overwhelmed and perished in tho snowstorms.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8329, 15 January 1913, Page 7
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