GRETNA RAILWAY DISASTER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2470, 25 May 1915, Page 5

GRETNA RAILWAY DISASTER

.... 6 HEAVY DEATH ROLL A NAVAL COMMANDER'S i HEROISM OVER 200 SOLDIERS KILLED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 23. One hundred and Eeventy bodies liavo been recovered at Quintal Hill, including two little girls. The death roll is increasing hourly. One hundred and ninety-five men of >ho Royal Scots are dead, eighty-eight ire missing, and 217 injured. A dozen victims succumbed in the i.ospital, four in the ambulance, and overal are dying. One hundred and wenty-four were seriously injured. The King sent a message of syinathy and of urgent inquiry about the offerers. It was eight hours before the flames were mastered by the firemen. At nine o'clock at night they were still pourng water on the wreckage. During the morning's rescues an offi:er lying on a heap of wreckage, asked i soldier, "Can you see me?" The •eply was in the affirmative. "Well," iontinued the officer, "I am alive and :an stand it for some time, but don't iorget me altogether." Commander Oliphant, in command of ■ the Naval Contingent aboard the oppress, freed himself and plimbed on to the roof of a burning carriage to release i Territorial when the roof collapsed, and Commander Oliphant disappeared in a raging furnace. The sleeping section of the express ff'as telescoped. The consensus of opinion is that, the majority of those burned in the wreckago were dead before tho flames reach, cd them. The patience with which the injured who were pinned down awaited rescue is described as admirable. Tho death roll would have been, heavier but for the soldiers' cool discipline. LORD KITCHENER HONOURED BY THE KING OF BELGIUM. London, May 23. 12.35 a.m. High Commissioner's report:— King Albert of Belgium has conferred on Lord Kitchener the Grand Cordon, of the Order of Leopold. BRITISH REWARD OFFERED GERMAN SUBMARINES. Athens, May 21. The newspapers announce that the British Teward offered for information leading to the destruction of German submarines in the Mediterranean has been raised to £2000. BRITISH CASUALTIES THE DAILY LISTS. The High Commissioner roports:— London, May 23, 12.35 a.m. Officers 29 60 20 4 Men 171 316 — 16 Dardanelles: Naval officers 3 — — — Naval men ... 6 33 — — London, May 24, 12.40 p.m. Army casualties:— Killed. Wounded. Missing, Man 248 1224 ■ 3!) • Officers 38 71 i WAR—Single. —... m flw'yc —P LOSS OF H.M.S. GOLIATH, THE CASUALTY LIST. London, May 23, 12.35 a.m. High Commissioner's Report:— The Admiralty reports that 488 petty, officers and men were lost through the sinking of the",battleship' Goliath." Thejr belonged mostly to tho-Devonport Division. MISCELLANEOUS KING VISITS SHIPYARDS. . London, May 21. The King visited the shipbuilding yards at Barrow-in-Furness. MRS. PANKHURST'S PROPOSAL. London, May 21. Mrs. Pankhurst, tho Suffragette, speaking' at. a recruiting meeting at Hull, said she, hoped the Government would declare ■martial law and mobilise men and women for the country's service. QUEENSLANDER IN CHARGE. London, May 21. Colonel Ahearne, of Queensland, has been appointed to take charge of the Wounded Allies' Relief Committee's Hospital, at Krajujevac, Servia. THREE BOMBS DROPPED ON PARIS. Paris, May 23. An aeroplane dropped" three bombs on Paris, but no damage was done. The machine was driven off.