Alarming Railway Collisions.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3761, 21 April 1908, Page 3

Alarming Railway Collisions.

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 one set of rails. The Glen Innes train was just going out as the Brisbane mail came in, the former train being drawn by two engines. The trains came together with terrific impact, and one locomotive shot on top of the other. The Glen Innes train,which[had few passengers, suffered most. The first car was considerably wrecked, and all occupants more or less injured. Two compartments of the first car on the Brisbane mail were stove in, and the passengers hurt. A force of infantry bound to the encampment, rendered great service in extricating the injured. The night was pitch dark, and it toqk some time to get the injured people out of the wreckage. None of the passengers were killed, but the drivers and firemen had a marvellous escape. Twenty passengers were injured, two seriously. One man had his right arm and both legs broken. Another had both legs broken, while two others had legs broken. The rest were cut and bruised. Another Dreadful Collision. 27 KILLED, 100 INJURED. F ""~ Melbourne, April 21. A dreadful railway collision took place late last night near Brabrook Junction, where the Bendigo and Ballarat lines meet. A heavily laden passenger train from Bendigo crashed into a train which had just arrived from Ballarat. Twenty-seven were killed outright, and about a hundred injured.