Railway Disaster in Australia

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 129, 28 April 1892, Page 2

Railway Disaster in Australia

NINE LIVES LOST. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, ipril 27. News has just been received in town of a dreadful railway accident at Sodwalls, on the Bathurst line. A train ran off the rails, and was smashed up. Of those killed the following have been identified : — Mrs Macdonald, Kerston, and engine driver, and Messrs Drelington and Dodd, the last-named being a New Zea« lander. The other bodies have not yet been identified. The list of injured numbers 15. Three children, whose names are unknown, are amongst the wounded, and it is believed their parents are among those killed, No first class passengers were injured in the railway accident. Mr Dislington, one of those killed, is also supposed to hail from New Zealand. Moat of those killed were travelling in the mail van, which wag smashed to atoms. The bodies of three women and two men are still unidentified. Those who were killed must have suffered terrible agony. Some of the bodies were literally cut to pieces against the granite cutting which flanked the line. Some pieces of flesh and fragments of clothing were found among the debris. The body of a woman, who has not yet been identified, was literally cut to pieces. This Day. The damage to the rolling stock in the railway accident is estimated at about £3000. The accident is the most disastrous that ever occurred in Australia. The train was travelling at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The night was dark and cold, and for a time the scene was one of terrible commotion.