“MISERE!”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 8

“MISERE!”

DEATH SITS IN GAME. (Special to the “Star.”) . SYDNEY, June 11. As the Brisbane express faced along to disaster four passengers played solo in the leading carriage. “Misere!” cried one of them, a man. He was unable to make his call. Then—a fearful crash, screeching, steam, screams and oblivion. It was the last vivid recollection of Nurse Bennet, one of the players, vL was travelling to Brisbane to see her mother, who was dying. In a state of extreme agitation. Nurse Bennet, who lives in Milson Street. Cremorne, was one of the first victims of the smash to reach Sydney to-day. She was hardly able to speak. The slightest mention of the disaster brought visualisation of the horror she had experienced. Her relatives and friends, who were first informed that she was killed, were waiting at the Central railway station with a motorcar. They walked beside her along the platform at the station, shielding herefrom photographers. Nurse Bennet was instantly rushed to Sydney Hospital. She was the first injured person to arrive there. When Dr LOrger attended to her the nurse’s hands were shaking. She referred constantly to the card game in the train, and to an incident when she changed seats with another woman. That woman was killed, Nurse Bennet said. Relatives believe Nurse Bennet had a premonition that something serious would occur during the journey. She said> that for some reason she felt as though she should not undertake the trip. Although she fell the full distance to the ground in the hurtling carriage, Nurse Bennett, who was pratically covered with wreckage, was extricated with her spectacles undamaged.