RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1917, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND

NINE N.Z. SOLDIERS KILLED. [pep. press association. —rorviucHT.} (■Received this day n't 1.20 a.m.,) LONDON, September 25. j While a train containing New Zealanders was standing on the up line atBeerforris, Devon, some of tho men left the carriages and crossed the line. A passing Express Train caught and killed nino of them.

[Beerforris the scene of the railway

accident- is inDevon on tho Tamar, tin

arm of the Plymouth Sound. It is not unlikely that the New Zealanders were recent arrivals and were entrained for their camp on Salisbury Flam.]

FURTHER PARTICULARS

NAMES OF VICTIMS UNOBTAINABLE. fI’KH TEESS ASSOCIATIONS —COPYRIGHT.] f Deceived Tin's T)av at 11.25. a.m.l LONDON, Sept. 25. In the railway accident at Beerfer-

rers near Plymouth, nine Now Zealanders were killed and three seriously injured. The nino were mostly cut to pieces, and were only identified by their discs. The men went to the rear of their 1 stationary train, where rations and t stores were being served. The express . train suddenly came round a curve and . caught tho New Zealanders, i Red Cross workers aboard the train j rendered first aid. * The name of the victims are unobtainable.