FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3930, 28 March 1870, Page 4

FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.

It would appear from the particulars which have been collected that, the train which left Glasgow on December 31, about half-past six o'clock, had several detentions between Glasgow and Forgandenny, at which place it arrived three hours behind time Here a stand of a few minutes was made, and it is alleged by the passengers that the danger signal was not put up to guard the carriages. While the train was standing at Forgandenny, the limited mail from the south came up and ran into the rear part of it, driving four carriages right on top of each other 1 , and smashing them to atoms. Two passengers were killed. One of these is a young man named Doig, a carpenter, living in Dundee. The other man's name has not been ascertained. Many persons have been injured, and among them several women and two children, whose legs wei'e broken. One woman had her face completely split open. All the dead and injured, were brought to Perth and placed in the l'efreshinent rooms. It was a work of the greatest difficulty to extricate the passengers — some of the carriages having to be smashed before their living freight could be released. One poor fellow, suffering greatly, repeatedly implored that he might be killed while the exertions to rescue him were being made. The two men killed were in the carriage next this one. It may be mentioned that three men were nearly half-an-hour firmly wedged by the he id and shoulders among the rubbish. When released they were almost lifeless.