ENGLISH DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2213, 17 October 1907, Page 2

ENGLISH DISASTER.

BETWEEN CREWE AND BRISTOL.

SIXTEEN KILLED; 20 INJURED

Tnitcd Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Oot. 10.

Tho London and North-Western Company’s express, running between Crewe and Bristol, was derailed at a harp curve at Shrewsbury. The train, which was carrying the nail, the rolling stock being mainly the property of the Great Western Railway Company, was not travelling at an excessive speed. The driver overt,hot the signals. The derailment occurred on a viaduct at 2 o’clock in the morning in total darkness. Torrents of rain were falling. The engine overturned, and the corridor carriages were ■heaped upon the locomotive in a great pile of wreckage, a portion of which became ignited. Screams of the wounded aroused the dwellers below the viaduct. The work of rescue proved very difficult. Sixteen persons were killed, including three letter-sorters and the guard. Upwards of twenty wore injured, mostly residents of Wales.

LATER DETAILS.

EXCESSIVE SPEED ALLEGED

(Received Oct 16, 11.56 p.m.) LONDON, Oct, 16

Nineteeen were killed and 40 injured, many severely, in the Shrewsbury disaster. Fifteen coaches were completely destroyed. The signalmen state that the train was going 50 miles an.hour, disregarding several danger signals and the injunction, to approach the curves at a speed of 10 miles as the maximum.

The vacuum brake had been airplied, apparently by the driver, but too late.

One hundred passengers were on the train.

SAIASH AT SO AVERY,

TWO KILLED; 31 INJURED

LONDON, Oct. 15. An electric train at Sowery bridge was derailed, and smashed into a house. Two persons were killed and 31 badly injured.