RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3178, 5 November 1892, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

(l)Y KLKOTttlfl TBLKUBAl'll—COI'YIIIOIIT). LOXIIOX, November 1. Thk Scotch express, travelling southwards, came into c<illision with a fOI)d3 tl-ilill :it tll<! Mr.leu , IfidHl! sill-

mg. All but two csirriiiges were completely consumed by a lire which broke

Eight persons were killed, and eleven iitjuroo, and it. is feared several others perished in the flames. The suir'er'rs w;-re taken to the Thirsk Hospital. The accident occurred during a fog, when the train was running u mile per minute. Lords Tweeddale and Huutly, who were asleep in a Pullman car, had a narrow escape. Over one hundred passengers were on the south express train which collided near Thirsk. Several of these had booked for Australia by the steamer Oratava, including Captain Duncan McLeod, of the 4ind Kegimcnt, who was killed, and h>. P. Brodie, who was seriously injured. Two of tho carriages were piled upon the engine and burnt, but the other carriages were not consumed. Altogether thirteen person wero killed.' Lord Tweeddale expresses the belief that the signalman was asleep. Tho accident happened at four o'clock in the morning.

November 3. A man named David McCulloch was badly injured in the railway accident. His .sister is missing, and is supposed to be burnt to death, and her little niece was killed. They were all on their way to Australia. One woman was burnt to death under tho engine in the presence of her injured husband. The wife of Sir Donald Stewart was among those injured. The signalman admits that he was asleep, having been tired out by watching at tho doo,th-bed of his child tho night before. He asked to be relieved from duty, but the stationmaster refused.