TRAINS IN COLLISION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20612, 10 January 1929, Page 9

TRAINS IN COLLISION

DISASTER NEAR GLOUCESTER. DRIVER OF EXPRESS KILLED. (United Proas Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) _ LONDON, January 9. (Received Jan. 9, at 10 p.m.) Two coaches of the London Midland and Scottish Company’s north bound Bristol-Nottingham mail train overturned through a collision with a goods train at Ashchurch, Gloucestershire. The driver of the express was killed and four passengers were seriously and 11 slightly injured. The express engine was derailed, and a number of coaches blocked both lines. Ambulances rushed 20 miles from Gloucester to the scene of the accident, which occurred in foggy weather within 20 miles of Charlield, where 15 were killed and 30 injured in a similar collision on the same company’s line. on October 13.—Australian Press Association—United Service. THE WORK OF RESCUE. THREE MORE BODIES POUND, LONDON, January 9. (Received Jan. 0, at 11,45 p.m.) Huge bonfires from the wrecked coaches were lighted to enable parties of doctors. and nurses to carry out rescue work in the dense fog and darkness. Three bodies of passengers were discovered amid the tangled mass of ironwork, bringing the death roll to four.

Apparently the express cat clean through the goods train, which was shunting across the track. The carriages were electrically lighted, and fortunately did not catch fire. The lights in some of the overturned coaches remained homing, assisting the rescuers. , One passenger lay for hours under the wreckage until a rail crane raised a truck from bis crushed foot. Owing to the shortage of ambulances at Cheltenham the police commandeered motor buses to ednvey the injured long distances to hospital.— »ustraliah Press Association.