"MYSTERIOUS."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 7

"MYSTERIOUS."

RUSHING TO RUIN AT HIGH SPEED, ~ ■ . , MINISTER'S STATEMENT. BOARD OF' TRADE WILL SIFT THE MATTER. BY TELEGRAni—rBESS ASSOCIATION —COrYMGHT. (Rec. Oct. 17, 9.34 p.m.) ' London, October 17. The Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at Manchester, stated that it was certainly mysterious that in three recent railway accidents trains driven by capablo and experienced drivers rushed madly to ruin at high speed, despite danger signals.' Tho Board of Trado, he added, was determined to sift the matter. London, October 16. At the' inquest in connection with the accident at Shrewsbury (in VwhieH 19 persons were killed and 40 were injured), two signalmen and a guard testified that the train was running away at fully sixty miles an hour, although tho homo and distance signals wore at "danger I" ■ '. fc. f. y!► '<"> There have been four deaths in connection with tho accident to an electric traiii at Sowerby Bridgo. VICTIMS IN SPAIN. " Madrid, October 16, Through a flood in a part of tho provinco of Barcelona, a train disaster has to be re*; ported. „ A bridge between Berga (fifty-two miles, from Barcelona) and Mauresa Was .'washed away, and a train was precipitated intb tho river. ' ' Eleven persons were drowned. 1 . \ J MAKING UP TIME. j (Rec. Oct. 17, 11.33 p.m.), London, October 17. At tho inquest in connection with tho accidont at Shrewsbury a guard stated that tho train left Crewo eight minutes late, and made up three minutes between Crewe and Shrewsbury. . •