RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3004, 29 September 1908, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

COLLISION ON AN ELEVATED LINE. THIRTY PERSONS KILLED. Received September 28, 8.0 a.m. BERLIN, September 27. A train running on a Berlin elevated electric railway, disregarding the danger signal at a junction, rammed another train broadside. Thirty persons were killed and twenty injured, chiefly through the victims coming in contact with the electric current. A CAR THROWN OFF THE LINE. FRANTIC SCREAMS OF PASSENGERS. Received September<2B, 9 a.m. BERLIN, September 27. The collision threw a third -class car full of passengers off the line into a courtyard twenty feet below, smashing the car and crushing the occupants. Another car hung suspended near a viaduct. The injured passengers screamed frantically until firemen relifted the car on to the rails. Many persons were terribly mutilated, one being decapitated. No one aboard the colliding train, which is supposed to be responsible for the accident, was injured.

DISASTER DURING A DENSE SNOWSTORM.

NINETEEN LIVES LOST. Received September 28, 9 a.m. LONDON, September 27. Reuter's correspondent at Helena, State of Montana, states that during a dense snowstorm a passenger express and a freight train.belonging to the Northern Pacific Railway.collided. Nineteen persons were killed and many injured. ; Everyone in the express smoking car was killed or injured. The car took fire.