THRILLING STORY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13171, 3 September 1913, Page 3

THRILLING STORY.

HOW A GUARD SOUGHT TO GIVE ALARM.

SAD SCENES: THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.

FIERCE HEAT TWISTS THE RAILS

(Received Sept. 3, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, Seperaber 2. Guard Whitby, of the Glasgow express, after raising the alarm, and awakening the passengers, ran back along' the line, where he placed detonators' and fog signals, waved a red flag, blew the whistle and made frantic ■efforts to attract attention ,but the oncoming train thundered past with a crash that reverberated from the steep mountains.

The heat was Of the fiercest nature, and twisted the rails.

Survivors of the first train narrate that they heard the hum of the approaching express. Some thought it was an aeroplane.

Smoke and rain added to the rescuers' difficulty.

The survivors obtained hatchets, lamps, saws and fire extinguishers from the guard's van, and lieorically assisted m extricating the injured and the dead. Their coats and trousers were burnt and their hair singed. - . ■ A passenger, half of whose body was pinned under the wreckage, was rescued as the flames approached. \

Elsewhere legs (dangling ftfoni a window were found to be severed from "a body.

An uninjured lady, the survivor from a coach wherein the others were dying, rushed about, asking. "Where are my golf sticks?"

A mother, holding a babe, sobbed a prayer of .gratitude when both their lives were saved.