TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 248, 19 April 1912, Page 5

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A TRAIN AND TROLLEY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 18, 5.15 p.m. Melbourne, April 18. A train at Warburton crashed into a trolley containing sixteen men. Four men, named Peberdy, Hallain, Baxter and James, were killed, and several others were seriously injured. A portion of the Warburton line was being re-laid, and the men were proceeding to work. Tlie trolley was running down a deep incline near Wandin, and the rain made the lines slippery. The men lost control of the tiolley, and ran on to a bridge just as the train from Warburton rounded a curve. There was no time to avoid a collision. Two men, named Hayes and Ryan, jumped off the trolley, and fell over the side of the bridge and were terribly injured. The others were thrown in all directions. Besides the four killed, eight were injured by colliding with the train. The injured men were conveyed to Lilydale Hospital. Received lfl, 12.5 a.m. Melbourne, April 18. Later reports state that only four were killed. The others jumped off before the collision. Only three were injured, two rather seriously. The others suffered from shock. Baxter's- body was carried some distance by the engine before it dropped over the bridge. *He, Pebery and James were recently arrived immigrants. The trolley was smashed to atoms, and the engine damaged.