RAILWAY SMASH

Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 4

RAILWAY SMASH

ACCIDENT IH VICTORIA Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright. MELBOURNE, December '25. A holiday train from Melbourne to Yarram was entering Koo-wee-rup station at a speed of 25 miles an hour when it fouled the tender of a mi|k train. The sides of five out of the sis coaches comprising the passenger train were ripped out, the last car being the only one to escape. Forty persons were injured, eighteen being taken to hospital. None, however, was seriously hurt so far as can be ascertained. The passengers behaved splendidly, there being no panic. Relief trains were hurried to the scene, and took the people to their destinations. It was fortunate that the passenger train was slowing down or the disaster would have been appalling. The milk train-locomotive was shunting down the yard, and the tender somehow had not quite cleared the points. FORTY PEOPLE INJURED. HOLIDAY MAKERS RETURN HO-MK. Press Association—By Telegraph -Copyright MELBOURNE, December 25. (Received December 2G, at 1.30 a.in.) Of the victims still in hospital to-day-only one—an eleven-year-old boy with a fractured skull and other injuries—is on the clanger list. Many of the 3GO holiday-makers bound for Gippsland decided to abandon the outing, and returned to their homes.