Trains Collide
FIREMAN AND DRIVER CRUSHED TO DEATH. PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright London, April 14. The Aberdeen express collided with an engine at Burnt Island. The driver and fireman were killed and four passengers seriously injured. The express train was going downhill at a mile a minute, and, owing to a corner, did not seo the goods train until it was impossible to apply the brakes. It struck the, train obliquely, otherwise there would have been an appalling disaster. The engine and three luggage vans and a passenger coach were derailed and flung on to the golf links. The driver and fireman, who did not attempt to jump, were crushed to death at their posts. Trotter, the guard, escaped by creeping through a window, though he was severely shaken. Luckily he extinguished the flaring gas under the overturned carriages. The goods engine only lost a buffer and was able to resume its journey.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 271, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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156Trains Collide Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 271, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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