TRAIN SMASH IN TASMANIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2697, 17 February 1916, Page 6

TRAIN SMASH IN TASMANIA

LAUNCESTON EXPRESS DERAILED INDESCRIBABLE SCENES OF CONFUSION FOUR KILLED AND TWELVE INJURED By Tbleirr«.Dh—Press Association—OoDyrlEhi Hobart, February 16. The Launceston express was derailed at Colebrook. Four persons were killed and twelve injured. The engino jumped the metnls, and then somersaulted over an embankment. The first two carriages ivere smashed. There t were indescribable scenes of confusion amongst the 200 passengers, who included forty delegates to 'ho Y.W.C.A. Conference and a number of soldiers. DRIVER SUCCUMBS. DIES LIKE A HERO. (Rcc. 'Febniary 16,11.10 p.m.) Hobart, February 16. n Driver Goodchild has succumbed to nii injuries. Though almost tho whole of tho skin had peeled off his scalded body, and suffering agony, he said to his rescuers: "Leave me, mates, and go to the others." A second soldier, Private Quinn (not Stubbs) was amongst the killed.

LATER DETAILS DRIVER'S HEROIC ACT. (Rec Fcbruarv 16, !).oo p.m.) Hcbart, February 15. Tho accident occurred n a curve. Many of the passengers were pinned in tho debris, and it was a long time before they were released; tho relief train did not arrive for two hours. Driver Goodchild, after leaving tho cab, realising tho danger of the boiler exploding, heroically crawled back and turned off the steam cocks at the cost of a very severe scalding. KILLED AND INJURED. The injured include two Anglican clergymen—the Ecv. Messrs. Anderson (Victoria), and Baker (Launceston). Killed: Mrs. Howell, president of the Geelong.Y.W.C.A., and Miss Barrass, of the Beudigo Y.W.C.A.; a man named Stubbs, and Private Hall —the last-named was one of fifty soldiers who were return to camp from their final leave.