GYMPIE TRAIN SMASH

Evening Star, Issue 18999, 22 July 1925, Page 5

GYMPIE TRAIN SMASH

EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY DEPRESSION IN RAIL ALLEGER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. .Australian ami N.Z. Press Association. BRISBANE, July 22. (Received July 22, at 10.20 a.m.) At tho inquiry into tho Gympie railway smatsh Mr M'Ginloy, representing the Australian Railwaymou’s Union, said that he would call evidence in support of tho belief that the accident was not caused by an obstruction, but bv a- depression, or hole, on the outside rail of tho curve. He intended to call evidence to sliow that tho curve was irregular. It was wavy, and •showed such other variations from the true form to make it unsafe to run over. Ho contended that the curve had not been properly, laid. A railway feller gave evidence that ho. discovered a hole in the cuPVc on the afternoon of June B, but, as it was close to knockmg-off time, ho put off remedying the defect till another time. [The accident happened in tho darkness of flic morning, when a railway carriage plumped into the water of the Travortou Creek. The survivors had a terrible experience in struggling to extricate the injured, tho darkness making tho task extremely difficult. The disaster occurred when the Rockhampton mail train was crossing tho creek near Gyntjno. A car toppled over the bridge, _Mno persons were killed and forty injured.]