VICTORIAN CALAMITY.
THE BRAKES. - BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPXP.IGHT • Molbourno, Juno 10. At the inquest into tho disaster at . Braybrook, where a Bendigo train, dashed into a Ballarat: train, the foreman of'.the ■lbcomotivo. depot gave evidence <that tho morning after tyc accident,ho asked.Milburn, tho driver of : tho Bendigo train,' how it occurred. Milburn roplied, " The brakes failed," .adding "No ono was ..to blame by t .myself, as tho signals wero against me." Milburn admitted that tho brakes during tho journey, up to the timo of tho accident, had worked beautifully. , ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 221, 11 June 1908, Page 7
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90VICTORIAN CALAMITY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 221, 11 June 1908, Page 7
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