SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 154, 29 January 1906, Page 2

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Telegraph Press Association Copyright Received Jan 29, 10.84 a.m. Melbourne, This Day An accident occurred, due to a train on the narrow guage line, Fern tree Gully to Gembrook, becoming derailed. The train consisted of eight covered trucks containing 260 Melbourne excursionists, when rounding a curve the engine left the line dragging with it three trucks crammed with passengers. They ploughed for some distance up the embankment and fell over on their Bides. There was wild excitment. When the passengers were extricated from the splintered trucks, it was found that about seventy had received injuries The majority were slight. The most serious were Mistress Cox and Ernest Gleeson, injured internally, Mistress Gleeson had a damaged leg, Rusßella fractured arm, Tenver Sheehan fractured wrist and badly cut. Two or three others are suffering very severely from shock. A train despatched from Melbourne brought the exourionists and wounded back. A great crowd was waiting till the early morning at Spencer-Street station.