RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 478, 10 April 1909, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

ENGINES COLLIDE. A FUSILLADE OF COAL AND IRON. MEN INJURED. (DrTELEGBArII—rBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. April 9,11.50 p.m.) Melbourne, April 9. Two unattached engines, each carrying threo tons of coal, backed into each other at. the Spencer Street-railway station with terrific force. .-'•'■.. Lumps of coal and irpn were thrown high in the air and into'tho cabs of the ongincs, striking the drivers and firemen. Fireman Morralr received severo injuries to the head, and. was ,taken" to the hospital, where he was detained. The driver of tho other online and two firemen were slightly injured. . ,!. '-, ' Both engines were badly smashed. BRAYBROOK DISASTER. DISMISSAL 1 OF TWO EMPLOYEES. (Rec. April 9, 11.50 p.m.) Melbourne, April 9. . In connection with the railway catastrophe at Braybrook (Sunshine) in April last, when 43 people were killed and 191 were injured, tho Departmental Board of Inquiry has furnished its report. ... Tho. Board .found Milburn (driver of the Bondigo train, which crashed into the ill— fatod Ballarat train) guilty on each of five charges. Driver Dolman, Firemen Tomlinson and Debeny,and Guard D'Arcy were found not guilty. ' The stationmaster Kendall was found guilty, '" with a recommendation to mercy. ' ■ Milburn and Kendall aro dismissed the service, with right of appeal. The others will be reinstated. ["Kendall was stationmaster at Braybrook. At the inquest he.gave evidence that he intended to give the signal to come to the distance to tho Bendigo'train, but,.according to the entry in his book, he gave "line clear" to Sydenham. The mistake he made was in not keeping the Ballarat train-at the home .signal when he gave the line clear, but he was under the impression that he had given the signal to the Bendigo train to come to the distance. He had been working, .for ten hours on the day of the accident, but that was nothing unusual. He had to look after both tho signals and tho platform.] GREAT DAMAGE TO ROLLING STOCK. (Rec. April 10, i.lO a.m.) • Sydney, April 9. At Newcastle; a' train with ten carriages backed into'' a. shed filled with carriages, causing great' damage to rolling stock. No one was injured.