VICTORIAN RAILWAY CATASTROPHE.
WHO IS TO BL-AME?
NEARLY 200 INJURED
United Press Association—By El*ctrio > Telegraph—Copyright.
MELBOURNE, April 23.
Th© Federal Hons© expressed ite sympathy with the sufferers by the raAway disaster.
Mr Tait, Commissioner of Railways, states that the station master at Sunshine gav© th© line de<ar to both Derpark and Sydanham on the Ballarat and Bondigo lines respectively. Tb_s shotrid not have been done, while another train was in tb© section, although it does not exonerate the drivers from disregarding th© more important semaphore signals, which wore against the Bendigo train.
Tbe list of injured totals 191. Six officials have been released from duty pending th© inquiry.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13098, 24 April 1908, Page 7
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