Forgetting 1994 Hengyang Railway Station Accident

Time: 1994 February 15 night, the sixth day of the first month, Tuesday, light rain, the specific weather data can not be found.

Although it is the Spring Festival, it is still early in spring, which is a typical wet and cold winter night.

It is not easy to go to work by train in the south. You have to catch it early or push it late. He also said, "No more than seven, no more than eight." Not on the seventh day, there must be many people on the eighth day. So many people who are eager to make a living choose the sixth day. Most of them didn't come back until the Spring Festival, but they were reunited with their families for a few days. But I still have to come back. After all, I am busy all the year round, and all my hard work is for the expectation of my family.

That night, people were everywhere around the railway station. In the cold wind, they were carrying all kinds of luggage and looking for shelter in piles, which was very embarrassing. They didn't know it, but the friend on the phone smiled and ate the cooked eggs brought from home to satisfy his hunger.

Venue: Hengyang Railway Station, footbridge on the platform.

1994, Hengyang Station has two waiting rooms and three platforms. 1 The waiting room is connected to the 1 platform, and this lane mainly stops at express trains and express trains. The second waiting room connects platform 2 and platform 3, and it is divided into upper and lower floors. Passengers need to cross the footbridge to reach platform 2 and platform 3.

Hengyang station is the only place where many migrant workers in the surrounding counties go south to work. There are two most impressive things: one is the big camphor tree in front of the station, which is lush and graceful, like an umbrella cover. No matter the wind, frost, rain and snow, it always stares at these wandering children under its feet like a mother; The other is an overpass. After checking tickets from the waiting room, passengers climb the steep stairs and enter the long semi-closed overpass. The overpass has multiple exits, and they need to go down the stairs according to the sign to get to the platform.

What happened: On February 5th, 17, the train from Hengyang to Guangzhou, at 9: 35pm, entered the station from the ticket gate on the second floor of waiting room No.2 and got on platform No.2.. Two minutes later, a passenger on the second platform of the overpass accidentally fell in the crowd and was tripped by the person behind him. In just one minute, dozens of passengers fell and trampled, eventually killing 44 people and injuring many others.

We can try to restore the situation at that time. First of all, the waiting room is very crowded, noisy and dirty, which makes people uncomfortable, as long as anyone who has taken the train in Spring Festival travel rush knows. Most people are standing. Originally, several people were sitting in chairs, and they all stood up and lined up before getting on the bus. There are too many people, close to each other, unable to move, clutching their luggage tightly, and their hands and feet are tired.

The transportation from counties to the railway station is inconvenient, and most people have gone out in the afternoon. After waiting for a long time, I am tired, nervous, hungry or anxious, and all kinds of discomfort. And most people only buy station tickets. Yes, it's not surprising that there is so much overload, so they are worried that there is no place to stand after getting on the bus, or even they can't get on the bus at all. All kinds of emotions are mixed into an urgent anxiety.

At last, the ticket checking began. The ticket inspector was in no hurry, as if it had not been his turn for a long time, and the people behind him were increasingly worried about falling behind. So as soon as I passed the ticket barrier, I couldn't wait to run and rush along the overpass! Or some people can't run fast after walking too much, and they can't help but walk away after being pushed by others. Everyone seems to have fallen into the rough river and rolled forward on the narrow overpass. At this time, someone suddenly fell down-in this case, it is almost inevitable. Others can't avoid it, and they may fall or step on it! Then, people kept coming from behind, more people fell down, more people were trampled, they screamed, screamed, cursed, struggled, scared and helpless, and hell came to earth.

When the medical staff arrived, 22 people had died. Treading caused serious injuries to internal organs, and people died one after another on the way to the hospital. The accident caused 44 deaths, 7 serious injuries and 36 minor injuries.

The response to the accident can be summarized in several common words: attach great importance to it, start it immediately, set up a headquarters, and take the lead in person to minimize the harm.

Cause analysis of the accident: too many tickets were sold, resulting in more passengers than expected, poor station guidance, too long and steep overpass and bad weather.

Accountability: the relevant leaders of the station were punished, and the most serious punishment was dismissal. The details are not clear.

Comments: This matter has become history, but it has not left a deep impression in history.

There are three memorabilia of 1994 released by Xinhua News Agency in February, namely, February 1 Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station's first unit was put into commercial operation, February 3, "Working Time Regulations for Employees" was released, and February 28, a national poverty alleviation and development work conference was held.

The 1994 incident in folk statistics, taking an encyclopedia as an example, includes the following three events in February: Sarajevo incident, the first launch of the Long March 3A, a leader celebrating the Spring Festival with people of all ages, and the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. UNESCO pointed out that the gap between the rich and the poor is the knowledge gap. Many places withdrew their counties and cities, the Aviation Science Foundation was established, the Ibrahim Massacre, the Third Plenary Session of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and it was broadcast by Shanghai Education TV.

All of the above are world events in the same period, and everything is enough to go down in history, except the Hengyang Railway Station accident. By horizontal comparison, take the Ibrahim Massacre, which spread far and wide in Wan Li and shocked the world, as an example, the death toll, including the murderer, was as high as 29.

Today, more than 20 years later, this matter has never been mentioned again. Maybe only their relatives and friends can remember their names.

In fact, what happened to them in those years was similar to that of countless other migrant workers. The only difference is that their luck is a little worse.

In memory of this essay, may 44 people rest in peace.