TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISIONS.
Twenty Killed in Scotland. London, Dec. 30. While the Caledonian Company’s train from Arbroath to Dundee was waiting at Eliott Junction tor the signal to proceed, the North British Express, travelling at the rate of twenty rail.es an hour crashed into the rear of the stationary train, and telescoped the guard’s van and the coaches adjoining. When the engine overturned, the driver, Gourlay, was thrown clear, but the fireman, Irvine, was pinned underneath.. He still survives. The side of one carriage was torn out, revealing a confused mass of dead and injured. Twenty passengers were killed and thirt} r -seven injured. Gourlay declares that all the signals showed the line to be clear. Others believe that the danger signal w as clogged with snow. Among those killed was Mr Alexander William Black, Liberal M.P. for Canilshire, aged fortyseven years.- The deceased was a son of the of the Rev. James Black and was married in 1888 to a daughter of the late Admiral Thomas Wilson, He was elected to Parliament in October 1900. London, Dec. 51. Gourlay, the driver of the train, has been arrested and charged with feckless driving.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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193TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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