FORTY HURT IN SMASH
TRAINS FOUL EACH OTHER SIDES RIPPED FROM CARS MELBOURNE, Monday. A holiday train from Melbourne to Yarram, 136 miles south-east of Melbourne. was entering Koowerup station at a speed of 25 miles <in hour when it fouled the tender of a milk train. The sides of five out of the six coaches that comprised the passenger train wereripped out. the last car being the only one to escape. Forty persons wero injured, and 18 of them were taken to hospital. No one, however, was seriously hurt, so far as can be ascertained. The passengers behaved splendidly, There being no panic. Relief trains v.ere hurried to the scene and took the people to their destinations. It was fortunate that the passenger train was slowing down, or the disaster would have been appalling. The locomotive of the milk train was shunting down the yard, and the tender somehow had not quite cleared the points. The victims were still in hospital today. Only one, an 11-year-old boy, who has a fractured skull and other injuries, is on the danger list. Many of the 360 holiday-makers, who were bound for Gippsland, decided to abandon the outing and returned to their homes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 9
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