RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1867, 22 September 1906, Page 2

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Sept. 20. Four railway coaches were derai e et Grantham. Nino passengers were K and twenty iojerod Tho .coaoheß ? - reduced to maiohwood, and blazed tu ouely. . , Piteous soeoos occurred owing to » inability of tho rescue party to render efftotivo aid.

New York, Sept- 20. The number of fatalities in the Oklahoma railway disaster was twenty. Float' mg wreckage of the train, which crashed into the river, helped to save the rest of the paeßsngf r?.

Received 10.56 p.m., Sspt. 21. London, Sept. 21. A fireman on the train shouted wildly while traversing Grauiham. Tho Times Bays that it was the fireman’s duty, when the engines ohanged at Peterborough, to see that the vaouum brake was attached to the engine before ro-startiug If that had been negleoted tho apparent inability to stop the train at Grantham was easily explained.

THEORIES AS TO CAUSE OF WRECK. 1 1 -- SIGNALS AND BRAKES IN ORDER

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9 p.m , Sept. 21. London, Sept. 21. I There were twelve deaths, the number including Mr Philipson, Director of the i North-Eastern Railway. Sixteen were injured, eight severely. All the signals were against the train, which ran through the points on tho Nottingham side. There being a sharp curve the train was derailed, the result being like the Salisbury accident. Forty mail bags were burned. The brakes were perfect It is supposed that the connecting rod broke when the train was approaching Grantham, or that the driver forgot the stop. The wreckage was ablaze for two hours.