Railway Disaster.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 195, 16 February 1895, Page 2

Railway Disaster.

On Saturday evening, during the great gale in London, the 4.15 express from Manchester to London, which consisted of nineteen carriages drawn by two engines, and conveying a large number of passengers bound for their Christmas visits or holidays, was approaching Chelford station, at a speed of fifty or sixty miles an hour. Just as the express came up, part of a goods train, which was being shunted, became detached, and was blown out of the siding on to the up main line. The express dashed at full speed into the obstacle, and in* an instant the engines and train were a pile of hideous wreckage,' -while the agonising shrieks which arose fro.n^ the heap of splintered wood and twisted iron spoke &\l too vividly of the mass, of hi^rnqxi si^fferii}g wliicrti Hvy bidden amid that deb-vis. When after hours of hard work all was at last laid bare, the dreadful discovery was made that no fewer than thirteen lives had been sacrificed, While fifty-two persons had sustained serious iniuries.