TRAINS COLLIDE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 6

TRAINS COLLIDE

• 'i PASSENGERS BURNED TO ' DEATH By Teleeraph—Press Associatlon-CoDyright London, December 17. A train from South Sliields, laden with business men and workmeli, collided with, a pilot engino in a fop; near Jarrow. Shortly. afterwards ■ a , light train' from t'he opposite direction crashed into and overturned tho pilot .engine. The first and second carriages of tilepassenger train burst into flame's, and the occupants were pinned under the blazing woodwork. Ten were burned to death. , , . ' Th© drivers ;and firemen naa extra-' ordinary■ escapes, though they "were slightly injured. ft HORROR HEAPED ON HORROR.. SOME AGONISING SCENES.' .(Rec. December 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 18. There were awful- scenes at the railway collision. There are twelve dead. When the gas ignited in the first three carriages, horror was heaped tin horror. A search of the debris ..revealed charred and unrecognisable bodies. One man who was pinned in the wreckage pleaded' to be put out of his agony; another, horrified at seeing the flames approaching, asked for his leg to be amputated to permit of his escape, but despite all efforts lie -was incinerated. Many of the passengers were munition workers carrying tools, which helped them to escape.