RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 236, 29 September 1908, Page 2

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

COLLISION ON AN OVERHEAD LINE. FM'TY PERSONS* KILLED AND INJURED. SHOCKINGLY MUTILATED. Berlin, September 27. A train running on the Berlin elevated railway collided with another which was standing at a junction, striking it on tho broadside. Thirty people were killed outright and twenty were injured. The casualties were mostly due to people coming into contact with live eleotric wires. The accident was caused by the driver of the' moving train disregarding ths danger signals. The collision threw » third-class car, full of passengers, oil the line into » courtyard below. The, oar was smashed and the occupants crushed. Another car hung suspended near a viaduct. The injured passengers could be heard screaming frantically until firemen lifted the ear on to the rails. Many of the passengers were terribly mutilated and one was deenpitated.

No one was injured aboard the moving train, \vhieh. is supposed to liave been responsible for thy accident.

DISASTER IN AMLRICA. COLLISION DURING SNOWSTORM. 1!) PERSONS KILLED. A OARLOAD INCINERATED. London, September 27. Router's correspondent at Helena, Montana, U.S.A., states that during a dense snowstorm a passenger express train and a freight train on the Northern Pacific railway collided. Nineteen persons were killed and many injured. Everyone in tlw Bmoking car on the express was killed or injured, tie carriage taking Arc. i