RICHMOND RAILWAY ACCIENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1910, Page 3

RICHMOND RAILWAY ACCIENT.

LONDON INQUIRIES.

[BY ELECTIUC TETjEORAPH--COPYRICIHT.] | PBH I'UESS ASSOCIATION.J (Received This Dav, 10.5 a. 111.* LONDON, July 19 Many inquiries arc being nmdo 111 Loudon far till! names of persons injured in 111 e- Richmond railway accident. TO-DAY'S NFWS. IT OUT? I liT/IO SCENES. PASSFXGERfI TERRIBLYMUTILATED. IX DESORIIIABT <K TORMENTS. LEGLESS SUFFERERS STRUGGLE FOR RELEASE. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) MELBOURNE, _This Day. Up .'to last illicit 187 claims bad boon received by t.lie Commissioners. Some of tlie carriages in Uie wrecked trains bad been taken over from tlie Hobsons Bay Company, and bad been in use over forty years. It was in tbese carriages where the loss of life occurred. The mode] - n carriages nearer the engines wbicb received tlie heavier shock suffered little. The. older carriages collapsed, and were smashed to matchwood, while the occupants wore tossed and crushed, about. Oro girl was carried ox loft on the roof of a collapsed ear, and was rescued terribly mutilated. Details ol rescue work are a fearfully gruesome record. Tn tbo compartments next to the gu amis' van UKinglod bodias wcro crushed down to the. floor with tbo smashed partition,s ill 11 dd led 'together in a hideous mass. The unfortunate viilbimis endured indescribable !tormen,ts until released. In one carringe throe men had their legs pinned down by one seat. Close by was a woman whose head had been smashed by n. .beam. A yard away a man had his eye torn out, and 'banging out of a firstolaas smokor was (the body of a man crushed as flat as a board. Nor far ofT was the headless body of another victim, the head being found on the permanent way. It was wrapped l in a newspaper and conveyed to the waiting room. In some cases legle.ss .sufferers were seen in every kind .of attiture struggling for release from the maddening agony.