WATERLOO RAILWAY DISASTER.
SIGNALMAN'S ERROR OF JUDGMENT. By fle]«graph—Preen Association—Copyright , London, • November 3. _ The inquest on the bodies of tho victims of the railway disaster at Waterloo Station on. October 26 has concluded. Tho jury returned - a verdiot .to the effect that the accident was due to on error of judgment on the part of ono of the signalmen, named Mooro.
Tho Board of Trado is considering the appointment of a Departmental Committee to inquire into tho recent series of railway accidents.
Owing to a thick fog which prevailed, the mid-Kent train dashed into a local train which was standing at. Waterloo Station. Three carriages of the local train, were smashed, three people being killed and nineteen injured. Most of the passengers on the local train had flighted. One of the telescoped carriages was lifted from its bogies, and the seats driven through tho glass roof of the station,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 5
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149WATERLOO RAILWAY DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 5
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