THE TRAIN DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 September 1913, Page 5

THE TRAIN DISASTER.

SOME HARJtivvViNG SCENES.

A RJSSCUER'S STATEMENT.

'Times' — 1 Sydney Sun' Special Cables. Last Night, 6.50 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 4.

In connection with the Aisgill disaster, the only clue to the identity X)f one of the victims was the fact -of his wearing a gold watch and -chain, and specks of the melted gold feeing embedded in his roasted flesh. in another case, a girl's necklace •was the only trace as to her identity.

The nearest, hospital was at Carlisle, forty miles away. One of the rescuers states that all "the carriage doors were jammed, and the efforts of twenty men were unable to open them, and that many of the official fire-extinguishers failed to work. ■

The Company Btates that it is willing to promptly meet all reasonable claims.

NOTE OF SYMPATHY.

'(Received Last Night, 6.50 o'clock.) •V 4. , The President of the Trades Union •Congress at Manchester, in moving a vj&ie of sympa-thy, stated that; the -catastrophe showed the -responsibility attaching to all industrial undertakings.

INQUEST OPENED. * > SOME OF THE BODIES- IDENTIFIED. (Received September 4, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The charred remains of victims of jthe railway disaster have beetj. removed to Kirkby; Stephen. The only means of identification are remnants of clothing, jewellery, etc. The bodies of John Patterson (an accountant, of London), three of the Morrison children, and two young ladies have been identified. An inquest was opened, but adjourned till the 17th. There were pathetic scenes.

ACCIDENTS ON GERMAN RAILROADS. (Received September 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The Trades Union Congress condoled with those who had been ber"""eaved by the Aiegfll railway disaster. I Mr Chandler, of the Railway Clerks' Society, remarked that the lowest percentage of'accidents was on State-owned railways. NEED' SOR STEEL-BUILT CARRIAGES. A MISSING HUSEIAI^;; (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) v . LONDON, Sept. 4. v Experts are emphatic in their as- > , sertion that th© resnlt'of th© accident wi [1 compel the railway companies to consider the substitution * of; v steelbuilt carriages fbi" those in use at pteeent. -'-.-"'V The ninth body has been identified. ="\ the inspection of f-.y the debris, picked up' a steel rule, ' which he took to Kirkby Stephen station. Here a wife appeared who was inquiring for' her husband. She immediately recognised the rule and fainted.