Railway Train Accident

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43379, 29 September 1908, Page 3

Railway Train Accident

LOSS OF LEEE DANGER SIGNAL DISREGARDED Berlin, September 27. A train running on the Berlin elevated electric railway, disregarding the danger signal at the junction, rammed another train broadside on, killing 30 passengers and injuring 20. Many of the victims were injured through coming in contact with a current. The collision threw a third-class car full of paesengers off the line into a courtyard 20 feet below. The car was smashed to pieces, the occupants being crushed, many being killed outright Another car was thrown off the track, but it bung suspended by its couplings near a viaduct, the injured passengers screaming frantically until a party of firemen re-lifled the car on to the rails. Many were terribly mutilated, while one unfortunate pisseuger Avas decapitated. No one was injured aboard the moving train, which is supposed to have been responsible for the accident.