mfort those who stood so much in need of help.
As the wounded were got out, and laid upon the banks of the line,
several surgeons busied themselves in examining and binding their
wounds, and the spot bore some resemblance to a battle-field after the
tide of war had passed over it. Seventeen dead and one hundred and
fifty injured already lay upon the wet ground, while many of the living,
who went about with blanched, solemn faces, yet with earnest helpful
energy, were bruised and cut badly enough to have warranted their
retiring from the spot, and having their own cases considered.
Meanwhile a telegram had been sent to Clatterby, and, in a short time, a
special train arrived with several of the chief men of the line, and a
gang of a hundred surface-men to clear away the wreck and remove the
dead and injured.

Many of those unhurt had made singularly narrow escapes. One man was
seated in a third-class carriage when the concussion took place. The
side of the carriage fell out, and he slid down on the rails just as the
other carriages and vans piled up on the place he had left, killing or
wounding all his fellow-travellers. Beneath the rubbish next the
tender, a mother and child were buried and several others. All were
dead save the mother and child when the men began to dig them out and
before they succeeded in their labours the mother had died also, but the
child survived. In another carriage, or rather under it, a lad was seen
lying with a woman's head crushed down on his breast and an infant
beside her. They had to saw the carriage asunder before these could be
extricated. The woman died almost immediately on being released, but
the lad and infant were uninjured. Elsewhere a young girl, who had
attracted attention by the sweet expression of her face, had been
strangled, and her face rendered perfectly black. In another case the
surface-men attempted to extricate a woman, by sawing the broken
carriage, under which she lay, but the more they sawed the more did the
splinters appear to cling round her, and when at last they got her out
she was dead, while another passenger in the same carnage escaped
without a scratch.

We would not prolong a painful description which may, perhaps, be
thought too long already--yet within certain limits it is right that men
should know what their fellows suffer. After all the passengers had
been removed to the special train--the dead into vans and horse-boxes
and the living into