RAILWAY SMASHES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1360, 21 January 1905, Page 3

RAILWAY SMASHES.

■GLASGOW-LONDON TRAIN COLLIDES DURING FOQi

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 19. The Glasgow-London express, following, collided with the Lceds-Lcm-tlon express at Cudw-orth during a third express from London Hashed* into the wreckage. The Glasgow express took lire. ■Robert Brought, an artist, received severe burns. The accident occurred through the Leeds express becoming derailed.. Received 11.19 p.m., Jan. 20. London, Jan. 20. The guard of the goods train at the adjacent siding noticed signals which indicated that the line was clear for tho London and Scottish express. By means of fo<r signals and warning the driver of the wrecked Leeds express, ho blow the whistle loudly, and warned the driver_ of the approaching express, who, applying tho brake, stopped tho train just as it grazed the wreckage. .... a Brought, tho artist, was tornbly burned. The "Glasgow expross was travelling with two engines at tho rate of 60 miles an boar In the dense fog tho signals were not observed. The train dashed into the Leeds and Sheffield express. Both wore telescoped and caught fire. Ono of the Glasgow engines rolled over the other and derailed The Glasgow oxpassengers, the fireman, and the cuard of the Glasgow express were killed,, and fiiteen wore injured, seven seriously.