RAILWAY DISASTER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3544, 4 August 1920, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTER.

THREE CA RR] AG ES TELESCOPED.

TWO PASSENGERS KILLED AND

14 INJURED.

SYDNEY. Aug. 3

An empty train, w‘h‘l'le Shlllltillg“ at Hlll'st\'ill9 to-night, ('Fa§hed into the rear of a stationary passenger tram, telescoping three end c.a.rl-iages. Two passengers were killed and fourfeen injured. m§ln_y seriously.

I I«‘UIITHER PARTICULARS. ‘ __._.._. Received 11.5 mm. I SYDNEY, This day. , Michael Sheen. an a,__/411111", and two lboyg named Roy Vxlhite and Stanley ‘Forest, \vm'(3 killed as 1-he result. o‘-f 21,119 railway smash when tllw Hul'stville gtrains collided rear to rear. While one train was shunting for the return journey +0 SydneY, the other was lawaiting the Signal -to proceed to Suthel-land. The engine of the f();-n1-er had already changed fo the otlmr ‘end of the train_ I g Forest was hopelessly buried in the wreckage, the I'eSCllC~l’S llaving to chop one of his» logs off with a hatchet to extricate him. The boy dimlayetl |Won(lol'flfl fortifurle, asking: for 21 cig'al.'eH‘o., and died on zr(7-.:1c13i:".;: fTnr-= hos‘lpifill. The injured rlnmfnered fifteen,