FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2407, 3 December 1880, Page 4

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A telegram from Albury on the Victorian-New South Wales border states that an accident involving the death of two men and serious injuries to another occurred on the morning of Nov. 13 on the railway line under construction between Gerogery and Albury. An engine, driving six trucks in front of it loaded with rails, was travelling down an incline three miles from the Gerogery railway station, at the rate of nine miles an hour, when a bullock got in front of the foremost truck, and sent it off the rails. The second waggon being loaded with the same set of rails, also followed, the couplings of the third luckily breaking, and thus leaving the remainder of the train on the line. On the front truck were three swaggers from Temora, taking a lift towards Albury,named Walter Wright, William Anderson, and an old man called George (surname unknown), aud the brakesman of the train. Immediately after leaving the rails the trucks ran into a wood heap aud overturned, burying the old man George partially under the truck and killing him at once. Wright fell clear of the waggon, but was so badly crushed by the rails that he died within two hours of being extricated. Anderson sustained severe internal injuries, and now lies in a precarious condition in Albury Hospital. The brakesman escaped with a bruise on his head. The bodies were brought into Albury, and a magisterial inquiry was held, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.