SERIOUS DISASTERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 7 December 1910, Page 5

SERIOUS DISASTERS

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

COLLISION ON A RAILWAY. ONE PAsSENUBK KILLED. deceived December 6, 10 a.m. LONDON. December 5. A railway collision occurred at Willesden Junction, near London. A fast tram cra?hed into a slow train from Wat-.rford. One of the passenger.i was kill I and thirty seriously injured. HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. Received last Nigh", 11 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. The accident was due to a question regarding the signal?. I'ne first train wad detained and the tickets were being examined, when the accident happened. 'J he other train should have been signalled to stop till the line was clear. The driver declares that there was ho signal given, and a curve in the line prevented him seeing the stationary train until too late. He applied the brakes in the quickest possible time. The consensus of newspaper opinion is that in view of the enormous number of trains leaving and arriving in London every day, the accident will create a very unfavourable impression. ANOTHER DK4TH. Recieved Last Night, 11.40 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. Another death has occurred amongst those injured in the Willesden colli=ioij.

"COLLIERY ACCIDENT. SEVEN MEN KILLED. Received December 6, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Decemters. ~ Owing to the breaking! of a : ,cage in the Pefnbeiton Pit. Shropshire, seven men were killed. PERILOUS BALLOON JOURNEY. AERONAUT JERKED OVERBOARD. Received December 6, 10.15 a.m. LONDON. Decembers German balloonists intending to travel from Munich to Switzerland were on Saturday caught in a gale and earned.across the North Sea at a terrific rate, They landed on Sunday at the Orkney Islands, where one of the passengers was jerked overcoard and drowned.