RAILWAY COLLISION
CABLEGRAMS.
[per united press association.] [iiy etkctrio telegraph— copyright.]
FATALITIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, November 17. Two stock trains collided near Petersburg. The engine and a number of trucks were telescope!. Firemen Brodie and Eager were killed, and Drivers Haines and Pennington injured. The Commissioner of Works and a number of other passengers in fhfiTcarriages attached to one of the drains were unhurt. Adelaide, November 18. * Particulars of the accident show that the trains were each travelling at 23 miles an hour in opposite directions on the same line. 'The crash was terrific. The firemen wore horribly mutilated, and the case of Pennington, who was severely scalded, is considered hopeless. It is estimated that £IO,OOO worth of damage was done. The accident was duo to the failure of the brakes to control the trains on the greasy lines. One train dashed past the point where the trains were timed to cross.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1102, 19 November 1901, Page 3
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153RAILWAY COLLISION Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1102, 19 November 1901, Page 3
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