The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-04
WE'RE LOCKEDN
And When Fire Broke Out
We're Burned to Death.
Several Killed in Railroad
Wreck in England.

Some of the Deaths Undoubtedly Due &c
the Universal British Custom of Locking
Passengers Into the Several Compart,
ments of the Cars-Fire Adds to the
Horrors of the Wreck.
LONDON, Nov. "a terrible railway
accident, accompanied by a number OF
deaths, occurred early Wednesday
morning near Thirsk, in Yorkshire. The
East Coast express train for London left
Edinburgh at 1920 Tuesday night.
The express being unusually heavy ii
was divided in two sections. The first
section proceeded safely to London, ar
irving at the usual hour. The second
section had over one hundred passen-
gers on board, including several noble
men and other distinguished people.
The train, which consis ed of coaches
from Dundee, Perth, Abroath and Aber-
deep, swept safely through southern
Scotland and the extreme north of En-
gland. A thick fog prevailed and it was
difficult for the driver to discern the
signals. Approaching Thirsk the fog
was thicker than ever and at a point
about two and half miles north of that
town the signals were entirely obscured,
CO IL % P-00o u aAA COlllued az IuIi
speed with goods train on a siding at
Manor House.
The wreck of the express was COM
plete. The engine came full tilt against
the goods train and toppled over,
smashed and dismantled, with the car
riageS after 1t, into a field next to the
track. The carriages were broken and
jammed together and most of the pas
sengers were caught in their compart-
mentS, as III so many traps.
The Wreck Took Fire
almost instantly from escaping gas, and
the smoke and flame and the shriehs of
the dying and wounded made horrible
scene. Those who managed to extricate
themselves uninjured FASTENED to assist
those who were alive and caught in the
wreck. 1t was difficult work owing to
the way in which the carriages were
crushed together, and the trouble in
opening compartment doors that were
fastened after the usual British fashion.
Men and women could be heard shrek
ing for assistance. and one man who
was slowly being burned to death and
who could not get out. begged the res
cuers, in heavens name, to kill him.
4 1t Is known. that not less than ten are
dead and that thirty are injured, twelve
of them seriously. The fireman of the
train was killed, but the engineer, who
jumped at the instant of the collision,
with broken leg.
The Marquis of Tweeddale and the
of Buntly, the latter lOrd-in-
to Queen Victoria, were aboard
the train.
The MARQUIS of Tweeddale escaped
and although all elderly gen
tleman he did active service i'll assisting
to rescue others.
The Marquis Of Huntly was bruised
and had a thumb broken, but suffered
no other injury.
Captain Duncan Mcleod. of the
Forty Highlanders, is among the
killed
Trains We're sent to the scene to clear
the wreck and carry away the injured
and dead. The mails for the north
were delayed for hours owing to the &C
cident.
The Marquis of Tweeddale states in an
interview that he travelled in a Pull
man car with the Marquis of Huntly
Mr.. Kynoch. of Keith. and Major Gen
eral Arthur LambOn accompanied him
IN the trip. The collision occurred
about 4:1O Wednesday morning.
The goods train, with which the eX-
press collid"d, was loaded with iron,
which made the encounter all the more
disastrous for the express and its human
freight
1t has been ascertained that the signal
man at the siding was asleep at the time,
which may account for the accident.
The Rev. John FOrsythe, chaplain of
.he CaledOnian asylum, was badly in
ured in the wreck
The Pullman carriage was thrown off
he rails and shattered, but the occu-
PANTS escaped death.