TERRIBLE TRAIN ACCIDENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8741, 15 February 1907, Page 2

TERRIBLE TRAIN ACCIDENT.

Big Collisions in America. (Per Ventura at Auckland.) Auckland, February 13. Fifty-three persons were killed and three score injured in a train wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railway, three miles from Washington, on the night of December 30th, The affair was the collision of a passenger train from Fredericksburg,’ Maryland, with an equipment of eight empty passenger cars, Ths engineer of the' - empty ■ passenger train failed to see the signal at'the station near on account of the fog. At Terra Cotta, where the wreck occurred, a number of passengers were waiting to take the Fredericksburg train. Only two of these, escaped, the rest being either killed by being drawn under the train or injured by dying wreckage. The train iqen have been arrested, and it is believed blame will rest with the engineer of the extra, who declares that the fog hid the signal from him, The train daspatchor states there was a fog, but not heavy enough to hide the red light from the sight of the engineer. The engineer, who is in prison, geems dazed by the magnitude of his error and by the terrible experience through which ho has passed? He can make no further statement than a simple declaration that if-the red light was displayed he did nbt see it. ’ The scenes at the wreck were indescribably 'Horrible. If; wtis some hours before all the fragments of the bodies were collected. Uninjuml passengers assisted in oaring for the injured, while soind walked to the next station to send for a relief train from Washington.