HEAVY DEATH ROLL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 June 1928, Page 5

HEAVY DEATH ROLL.

IN RAILWAY DISASTER.

POIGNANT SCENES. Piess Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyrig LONDON, Thursday. The Darlington disaster death-roll is now twenty-three and one of the injured passengers is dying. This is the most disastrous railway accident since the troop train calamity at Gretna Green in 1915. i .

The little village of Hctton-Lc-llolc is tragically afflicted. Fourten women from Iletton were killed returning from a Mothers’ Union outing at Scarborough; also many were badly injured. > There were poignant scenes to-day when the bodies were laid out in rows and identified in an improvised mortuary in the goods yard. The express driver says that the distance signal was set in his favour and ho went through. Suddenly he saw an engine and braked, but it was impossible to avoid it. When the engines crashed he was hurled off the footboard. When lie recovered consciousness he heard heartrending screams.—* Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.