RAILWAY TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 5

RAILWAY TRAGEDY

ENGINE LEAPS RAILS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 3. The engine of the noon express from Edinburgh to London leaped the rails at a sharp curve near Carlisle, burying its nose in the loose stones of the embankment. The first two coaches crashed into the tender and telescoped, killing four and injuring twelve. The bodies of two men and a woman and a child were reeovored from the wreckage, with the aid of doctors, nurses and hundreds of helpers. Both lines were blocked, necessitating a division of traffic. Apart from twelve seriously injured, fifty other passengers, shocked and injured. were sent to hospital. Soldiers from the garrison, who were playing a cup-tie in an adjacent field, accompanied by the spectators, participated in the rescues. It is believed that frosty rails caused the engine to jump the metals. According to a spectator it absolutely jumped into the air. FURTHE'R. PARTICULARS. (Received this dav at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 4. Curiously two men victims of the Carlisle smash, were railway employees going to London. The third victim was a woman, whose two sons were injured. The, rep-art that a child was killed is erroneous, Only six were detained in the hospital.