SHOCKING ACCIDENT
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(United Prm AMOciation—BH Ehd' trie Telegraph—Copuright.).
TRAIN CRASHES INTO A TROLLEY
FOUR KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED.
(Received Last Night, 5.15 o'clock.)
MELBOURNE, April 18. A trh.in at "Watrburton, a township -18 (miles cart, of Melbourne,, crashed into a trolley containing sixteen men. Four of them, named Pebeirdy, Hallam, Baxter and James, 'were killed, and several were seriously injured. A portion, or the Warburton line whs being■ relaid, and the men were proceeding 'to work, when the trolley .ram away down a h.teep incline near Waaidin. R<ain had made the • lines slippery, and the men lest control of the trolley, iwihich' ran on to a bridge just as the train fro-m Warburton. rounded the curve. .There was* no time to avoid the collision. .Two of the men, Ry and Hayes, jumped from the trolley, and fell over the side'of ttit bridge/and received terrible injuries'. ,= "Ihe others were thrown in'all directions. -,''■■ Till© traiin. cc-nveyed tho injured to the lilydale Hospital*.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10612, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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161SHOCKING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10612, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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