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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1928, Page 3

DETATT.S^Ij^HKDY. (Received this day at p.ra.) .LONDON, June 28. Darlington death roll totals twentythree, ono of the injured dying. Tho accident is the most disastrous since Gretna Green-in 1915. The little village of Hettonleholc was tragically afflicted, fourteen women therefrom l>cing killed when they were returning from a Mother’s Union outing. Scarborough also had many badly injured. There were poignant scenes to-day when the bodies were laid out in rows and indentified in an improvised mortuary in the goods yard. The express driver says the distance HHBpsignnl was set in his favour, and he ||||l|j^Kwent through. Suddenly ho saw the and applied the brakes, but it was impossible to avoid it. When tho engines crashed lie was hurled off tho foot hoard and when he recovered consciousness lie heard heartrending screams. ,

A BLUEBEARD’S VICTIMS. PARIS, June 28. A message from Marseilles says tho latest investigations reveal that Prat lias a stronger claim tn tho title of Bluebeard than Landru. Ilia victims aro now believed to number fifteen. OBITUARY. LONDON, June 29. Sir John Isaac Thornyoroft is dead.