RAILWAY DISASTER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8001, 20 October 1887, Page 4

RAILWAY DISASTER.

THE DONCASTES COLLTSiO\. A dkeaufgo, collision occnr:i?d '>n aptembor 16th on the Mkllnuu Riiiv-.y. The train was filled with cxcnr?ioc"itfc, j who were going to Donoiistpr U- v ilui'ss the races at that place. It colliuud with ( another train and was wrecked. Many escursonists were killed and many injured. The total injured was seventy. The Midland train was standing on a crossing a mile from Doneaster, and the tickets were being collected, when the Liverpool express dashed into it. The guard's box was smashed to atoms, and the first carriage of tho Liverpool train telescoped with the next. It was a long time before the injurod and dj ing who w^ro wed ed in the ruins conM beu-M'ued, Ts'uuty-four porsons were kilkv and ni'iny injured, soino oi! whom enauot re xn-.'v

Tho scene at tbe wreck wat, humble. Scores of people laid bleeding or iioid, wedded and splintered woodwork and debris. Their shrieks and moans wero heartrending, but it was impossible to help them until mechanical appliances arrived. Many wore taken out shockingly mangled, Borne decapitated and disembowelled. Some of the dead were only recognisable by thoir clothing. A curve in the lino hid tho express train until was within a Bhort distance of the express train. The driver has nut explained how he ran past the danger signals. The latest report places the number of killed at twenty-three and injured thirty-six.

The late Mr. Newdegate's ancestral abode was at Arbury, Warwickshire, where Bhooting parties were frequently given. At theße gatherings the cover-fire was often so hot and so careless that a gentleman who had escaped from several engagements of this characiei" described it as like a battle in a thick wood. " Why," he said, "the man who was Bberiff of Warwickshire, the man who is sheriff, and the man who will be sheriff are all of them one-eyed, and all lost their other eye in c ne of JJewdy'a shooting-parties 1"

A man who had foolishly ventured upon a verbal contest with hia wife, was met, as he was retiring from the scene, by his little son, who was beginning to study grammar. " Pa," said the child, " what part of speech is woman ?" To which the father replied: "Shi isn't any part of speech at all; shea the whole of it."

Ulobson: " I declare ! this shirt ha 3 got a broken button-hole, and I'll have Lo pull it off again. (Rushes into the hall.) Mrs. Blobson, what havo you been doing all this week?" Mrs. Blobson: " Sowing for the heathen." Blobson (indignantly): " Well, you'd better begin at home."

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