Probably a bit late to reply to all this, but there is a newspaper article, two in fact, about this accident on findmypast (if you have a sub). I cant seem to copy and paste here the results if you want to find it but this is what the search came up with : The Purfleet Disaster in Purfleet in the 9th September 1915 Northern Whig, Belfast about the funeral, and another newspaper dated 6 Sept 1915 Dundee Courier, must be part of it missing, but the part that shows starts "all the bodies except one of the 17...."
