RAILWAY DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1928, Page 4

RAILWAY DISASTER

TWO BAD SMASHES. (United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). • LONDON, Oct. 13. One man was ki.led and fifty persons were injured, including manywomen, by a railway collision'in a tunnel outside a Queen Street station, Glasgow, involving a London-bound train. The dead man was proceeding on /< his honeymoon. His bride is among those injured and is in hospital. HORRORS OF THE SMASH. The horrors of, the collision were accentuated by. the darkness of the tunnel at which it occurred. The doctors, railway-men and volunteers were soon unrecognisable with soot and grime.; . The rear of the train was smashed to matchwood and wreckage was piled up against the roof of the tunnel. It' is remarkable how the passengers except one escaped with their lives. It ' \ is feared tha many will lose limbs. In one case a bridegroom -was terribly mutilated, and he still had a white carnation in his buttonhole from the wedding. Nineteen out of the fifty injured were seriously hurt. One dead qpan, the bridegroom, is Donaldson Gray, who was married only three hours previously. His wife’s leg was amputated in the hospital, as well as the front of her other leg. Another couple, Mr and Mrs Ross, were also on .their honeymoon, and they are lying injured in separate hospitals.