THAT RAILWAY HORROR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 3 September 1913, Page 6

THAT RAILWAY HORROR.

FURTHER DETAILS.

A PLUCKY GUARD.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

(Received 12.40 p.m.) London, September 2. Guard Whitby, on the Glasgow express, after raising the alarm and awakening the passengers, ran back along the line and placed detonators as fog signals, waved a red flag, blew his 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 and twisted the rails. The survivors of the first train narrate that they heard the hum of the approaching express. Some thought it was an aeroplane.

THE RESCUE WORK. Smoke and rain added to the rescuers’ difficulties. The survivors obtained hatchets, lamps, saws, and fire extinguishers from the guard’s van, and heroically assisted in the extrication. Their coats and trousers were burnt and their hair singed. A passenger, half of whose body was pinned under the debris, was rescued as the flames approached. Elsewhere, legs dangling from a window were found to be severed from a body. An uninjured lady survivor from a coach in which others were dying, rushed about asking “where are my folf sticks?’

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