Terrible Railway Accident

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 130, 26 April 1890, Page 2

Terrible Railway Accident

AN ENGINE SMASHED' TO ATOMS. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. By Electric Telegraph- — Copyright; (per unite© pbess association.) Sydney, April 25. A terrible railway accident happened at Bathurat to night. A great crash, like an explosion, was heard about 7 o'clock, proceeding from the gates in Bussell-street, where au engine was found with its front smashed to atoms, as were the carriages and truoks, and several dead bodies were found lying about. It appears that a mixed train left for Sydney at 6.30 p.m., and when near haglan several truck couplings gave way, and many of the trucks came down irom the zig zag-past the Raglan township at a great speed, and dashed through the Kelso station. At Bathurst a goods train just about to start for Sydney failed to get out out of the way of the runaway trucks, and a terrible collision resulted. The loss of life at present is indefinitely known, but five bodies have been discovered. Some of these had been killed by a shock, while others were dreadfully mutilated. ' \. '". Later. The guard's van and passenger carriages were completely telescoped by the engine, and the train from Bourke is nothing but splinters. So far as is known, several children named O'Connor, who were returning from school, were killed. Mrs Franklyn and the driver of the Bourke train were killed, aad a child named Noonan was seriously injured. 1 [Bathurst is the principal town in the western district of New South Wales, and is distant from Sydney 144 miles.J