RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1418, 19 April 1912, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

:. « : ■" FOUR MEN KILLED. Br Tclcjjraph—Presß Association-CopyriffM (Itec. April 18, 5.15 p.m.) Melbourne, April 18. A train at Warburton, fifty riiWs'east of Melbourne, crashed into a trolly con. tainiug sixteen men. Four of them—l'pl> erdv, ITallam, Baxter, and James—vera killed, and several others seriously injured. A portion of the Wnrburlon line was being relaid, and the, inijii yprt pj(jcoeding to wnrlc i The trolly ■ was' running down a deep incline near Wandin, and as tile rain liad made the lines slippcrv tile men 10-,t control of it. Tho trolly I ran on to the bridge just as a train from Warburton rounded the curve, .'i'licro was no time to avoid n collision, Two men, Hayes and Ryan, jumped from the trolly mid fell over tho bide of tho bridge.., They wero terribly injured. • Tho-others were flirowti m all directions. ■ ; - i. Besides tho four- killed, bight were injured. Tho colliding train conveyed tli« injured to tho Liiydnlo Hospital. (Hoc. April 19, 0.5 a.m.) 'i Melbourne, April 19. ' Later reports stato that, excepting tli* four men killed at Warburton, tlic others jumped off the trolley before tho collision. Only* threo two of them rather seriously. Tile" others' ar» suffering from sh6ck. ' Baxter's bodywas''tarried somo distance by tho engine, and ' dropped over the bridge. Baxter, PeberdjS and James were recently arrived immigrants.. Tho trolley was smashed to atoms, and tho engine was; (ilso damaged. '