Qarriases Containing Excursionists Telescoped in Collision witha Goods Train: Dead and Dying Sandwiched London, June 28.
Righteon' persons. were killed and 80 injured in-a collision between an -exoursion train travelll Scarborough to Newcastle goods-train. outside Darlington Station, Later, The terrible spectacle of the dead and injured, including women and: children helplessly penned "in the telescoped carriages, was described by a passenger who, interviewed by Reuter, said that the brakes were applied as they wore leaving Darlington, after which. there was violent shock and the lights went There were rows of seats piled up on top of each other in the talescoped coaches and terribly mutilated passengers were sandwiched "between them. Rescue parties made frantic efforts to extricate them, using saws and axes to hack away the debris, while doctors rushed to the spot and administered drugs to fortify the injured during the ordeal of extrication.
The disaster was one of the worst in Britain in twenty years.
'A curious feature of the catas-that while the second pushed right through the first wis hardly The engine of the passenger train was flung on its side and the front bogey-wheels burled. twenty yards, Later The death-roll as the result of the train disaster has now reached 22.—Reuter,
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