RAILWAY DISASTERS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 735, 7 February 1910, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTERS

THREE DEATHS.

•TRAIN GOING AT TERRIFIC PACE,

A VICTIM'S PROPHECY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—OokttleM. (Roc. February 6, 5 p.m.)

Melbourne, February 6. A railway accident resulting in the loss of three lives has taken place, at Beaufort, 128 miles north-west of Melbourne.

A. goods train from Ararat, drawn by two engines, instead of drawing up at Beaufort, ran into tho buffer stops.

The driver (Coward) and the fireman (Russell), of the second engine, werekilled instantly. s .' •

- 'The fireman.(Gillan) of the first engine died subsequently, while the . driver (Gronn) of the loading engine was badly scalded. . > •• .. . . ', ■

The signalman states that he «aw that the train was travelling ; at a terrifio pace, and in .order to prevent a collision with a goods engine which was standing on the line he, switohed the Ararat -train into the dead end. ' .•:

The impact was terrifio. The leading engine was derailed, and the seoond en-, gine and the tender were orumpled np.

' Coward, the driver, of the second ; en,'gine, was found olinging to the.lever, and Russell, the fireman of the 6ame engine,, was holding on to tho braie.

Gillan was pinned under the first engine, and it took'threo and a half honre to release him. •

' Complaints have been made that the crew of: the train, had been on duty for eighteen! hours without a break.

- Coward is, stated to' v have remarked to his .wife: 'Where is sure to bB a, smash on 6of these days. We have to work, so long: that we are often half asleep on the job." .

ANOTHER ACCIDENT,

SOLDIERS INJURED AND. HORSES, KILLED. By Tskrraph—Press A«»ooliUon—Oojurieht. Hobart, February;s. A troop train proceeding to Ross; 83 milea north of Hobart, became dorailed, and a number of trucks, wero wrecked. Many horses were killed or injured, and several soldiers received minor injuries.