DRAINS IN COLLISION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 18 April 1908, Page 5

DRAINS IN COLLISION.

CABLE NEWS. •United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

TWENTY PASSENGERS INJURED. Received April IS, 12.53 a.m. SYDNEY, April 17. At an early hour this morning the Brisbane mail train crashed into the second division of the Glen Innes mail train at Murrundindi. For some unexplained reason the two trains met on the one set of rails. The Glen Innes train was just moving out as the Brisbane mail came in. The two engines came together with a terrible impact. One locomotive shot on top of the other. The GJexi Innes train, which had a few passengers, suffered most. The first car was considerably wrecked, and all the occupants were more or less injured. The two compartments of the first car of the Brisbane mail were stove in, and the passengers hurt. Infantry, bound for the encamp, ment, rendered great service in extricating the injured. The night was pitch dark, and it took time to get the injured people out of the wreckage. None of the passengers were killed, but the drivers and fireman had a marvellous escape. Twenty passengers ware injured; two seriously. One man had his right arm and both legs broken. Another had both legs broken, and two others had a leg each broken.