RAILWAY COLLISIONS.
FIFTEEN PEOPLE INJURED. Gy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Nov. 17. A dense fog caused a collision on the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway at Brixton. Fifteen people were injured.
THE COLLISION NEAR PETERSBURG.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Adelaide, Nov. 18. The stock trains which collided were each travelling at the rate of 25 miles an hour, from opposite directions on the same line. The crash was terrific.
Tho firemen were horribly mutilated. Pennington was severely scalded, and his case is hopeless. There is fully .£IO,OOO damage. The accident was due to a failure of the brakes to control tho train on a greasy lino, one train dashing past the point where the trains were timed to cross.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 266, 19 November 1901, Page 3
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