RAILWAY COLLISIONS SEVERAL CARRIAGES WRECKED THREE MINING DELEGATES KILLED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 7

RAILWAY COLLISIONS SEVERAL CARRIAGES WRECKED THREE MINING DELEGATES KILLED.

ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 25, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd January. A disastrous collision occurred on the Taft Vale Railway, near Pontypridd, in Glamorganshire, Wales. A train, containing three hundred 1 passengers, overtook and dashed into a coal train. Several carriages were wrecked, and the front guard's van wjts hurled on top of the first of the telescoped carriages. The driver and fireman of the 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 Roy. W. Powell, a Methodist minister, were among the killed. The bodies of eight men and three children have been recovered. TRAIN OUT OF CONTROL. NARROW ESCAPE OF DRIVER AND FIREMAN. (Received January 24, 8.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A train of coal-trucks got out of con^ trol at Adamstown, near Newcastle, and crashed into a dead-end. The locomotive left the rails and toppled over a fence alongside the line. Two trucKs were telescoped and smashed to matchwood. , The driver and fireman jumped immediately before tho crash. Both escaped uninjured.