BRITISH RAILWAY DISASTER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10742, 5 September 1913, Page 5

BRITISH RAILWAY DISASTER.

IDENTIFYING THE DEAD

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, September 4

In connection with the Aisgill disaster, in one case the only clue to the identity of a man wearing a gold watch and chain is specks of melted gold embedded in the roasted flesh

In another case a girl’s necklace is the only trace. The nearest hospital, Carlisle, is forty miles away.

A rescuer -states that all the carriage doors jammed, and the efforts of twenty men were unable to open them. Many official fire extinguishers failed to work. The company states it is willing promptly to meet all reasonable claims.

The President of the Trades Union Congress sitting in Manchester sympathised. He stated that the catastrophe showed the responsibility attaching to all industrial undertakings. Experts are emphatic that the result of the accident will compel railways to consider the substitution of steel built carriages. The ninth body has been identified. A juryman, during the inspection, picked up a steel rule and took it to Kirkby Stephen station, where a wife happened to be enquiring for her husband. She immediately recognised the rule and fainted. Received September 5,11 am. | London, September 4.

Sir A; Douglas remains in Carlisle infirmary. His condition shows slight improvement.

“The chance of being killed in an accident on the British railways is one in about 4,577,000 miles. Trains last year in the United Kingdom, states the Board of Trade report, travelled 413,000,000 miles. Ninety passengers were killed in accidents and 2146 injured. Railway servants killed numbered 337, injured 5408. Trespassers, including suicides, killed numbered 458. In the ten years ending 1911 one passenger was killed on the average in every 65,000, 000 jonrneys and one injured in every 2,100,000 journeys.