DARLINGTON DISASTER
DEATH ROLL INCREASING. HEAVY TOLL OF WOMEN. FOURTEEN FROM ONE PLACE. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 28. The Darlington death roll totals 23. One of the injured persons is dying. The accident is the most disastrous since that at Gretna Green in 1915. The lit Me village of Hetton-le-Hole -was tragically affected. Fourteen women from that place were killed. They were returning from a Mother’s Union outing. Scarborough had many of its residents among the badly injured. There were poignant scenes to-day when the bodies were laid out in rows and identified in an improvised mortuary in the goods yard. The express driver says that the distance signal was set in his favour, and he went through. Suddenly he saw the other engine, and applied the brakes, but it was impossible to avoid it. When the engines * crashed he was hurled off the footboard, and when he recovered consciousness he heard heart-rending screams. —Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 13
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