RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1921, Page 1

RAILWAY ACCIDENT

FATAL RAILWAY SMASH. TEN KILLED, SEVENTEEN INJURED. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Jan. 26. A passenger train and the express met in a head-on collision at A berm file, Montgomeryshire. The leading carriages were telescoped. There are about 16 dead. LONDON, January 26 According to the latest reports ten are dead tit Abermulc, including Lord Herbert Oane-Tempest, a director of the railway on which the disaster occurred. Seventeen were injured. Twenty are dead at Abernnile.

The scene of the disaster is a lonely spot in the Welsh hills, through which runs a single track. The railway is run on the block tablet system. It is unknown why the slow tfain left Abermule instead of waiting for the express.

as usual. The trains met within a humped yards of the bond in the line, which obscured the view. The fireman and driver of the express whistled and put on the brakes, then jumped from the footplates almost at the moment of 'lie collision, and wore only slightly injured, while the driver and the firemen of the slow t rain were killed. No one else on the slow train were badly hurt. The deaths were practically confined to the second and third conches of the express, which were telescoped.

Hie engine ol the slow train stood upon the debris of the express to a height of twenty feet. From the wreckage beneath the engine came muffled cries and grouts The otho'r passengers quickly set to work in getting out the injured and dead. It took five hours to excavate some of tln> passengers. One man got out .at the previous station to buy a newspaper, but was miiibje to reach bis own carriage "here Itis wife was travelling. |J ( , jumped from the rear.of the carriage and as iinlmrt, while his wife was IMled - T,lt ’ Poor fellow darted round the wreckage demented crying: “Mv wife' She's in there!”

Two boys, sons of A. R Onslow, end nepheu-s of Lord Onslow ox-Govcrnor Gunurnl of New Zen land were klf fn.** 'I hey were going to'Harrow School. thk Casualty list. (Received This Day at 8.60 a.m.) LONDON, Januarv 27. Official-The casualty list in the Welsh railway disaster states sixteen were killed, sixteen injured (two critically).