RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 7

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

A TERRIBLE COLLISION. CROWDED TRAIN WRECKED. ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 23. A disastrous collision occurred on tho Taff Vale Railway, near Pontypridd, in Glamorganshire, Wales. A train, containing three hundred passengers, overtook and dashed into a coal train. Several carriages ivero wrecked, and tho front guard's van was hurled on top of the first of tlio telescoped carriages. \ The driver and fireman of tho passenger train were thrown on to an embankment unhurt. Councillors Tom George, Tom Harris, and W. Morgan, members of the executive of the Miners' Association, who were proceeding to attend a meeting at Cardiff, and the Rev. W. Powell, a Methodist minister, were among . ■ the killed. The bodies of eight men and three children have been recovered. COAL TRAIN RUNS AMUK. . Sydney, January 24. A train, of coal-trucks got out of control at Adamstown, near Newcastle, and crashed into a dead-end. Tho locomotivo left the rails and toppled over a fence alongsido the line. Two'trucks were telescoped and smashed to matchwood. The driver and fireman- jumped immediately before the crash. Both escaped uninjured. ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WRECKING. Melbourne, January 24. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Melbourne to Ballarat train. Large stones were placed oil the line.