RAILWAY COLLISON.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 660, 12 April 1870, Page 4

RAILWAY COLLISON.

It would appear from the particulars which have been collected that the train which left Glasgow on December 31 about half-past six o'clock had several detentions between Glasgow and Forgandenny, at which place it arrived three hours behind time. Here a stand of a few minutes was made, and it is alleged by the passengers that the danger signal was not put up to guard the carriages. While the train was standing at Forgandenny the limited mail from the south came up and ran into the rear of it, driving four carriages right on the top of each other, and smashing them to atoms. Two passengers were killed. One of these isa young man namedDoig, a carpenter, living in Dundee. The other man'snamehasnotbeenascertained. Many j persons have been injured and among them several women and two children, whose legs were broken. One woman had her face completely split open. All the dead and injured were brought to Perth and placed in the refreshing rooms. It was a work of the greatest difficult to extricate the passengers — some of the carraiges having to be smashed before their living freight could be released Ono poor fellow, suffering greatly, repeatedly implored that he might be killed while the exertions to rescue him were being made. Mr Robert Gray, a young gentleman from Glasgow, who belongs to Dundee, impatient at the delay caused by the repair of the couplings; walked out on the platform, and saw the mail train approaching. I Suspecting there .would be an accident, he had just time to pull his brother out of the center carriage, and rush back from the train, when the collision took place. The centre carriage was that on which the rear carriages was piled, and in it most of the passengers were injured. The two men killed were in the carriage next this one.. It may be mentioned that three men were nearly half an hour firmly wedged by the head and shoulders among the rubbish. When released they were almost lifeless.