TROOP TRAIN STRUCK

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1944, Page 4

TROOP TRAIN STRUCK

Four Killed, Twenty-seven Injured SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ACCIDENT. .{Rec. 8.35.) ' MELBOURNE, May 12.! Four soldiers were killed and twenty-seven injured when a goods train crashed into a stationary troop £rain at Puttapa, South Australia, just after midnight yesterday. • A special train was rushed to Puttapa, while doctors, nurses and medicaL equipment were sent by road. The troop train, carrying 300 soldiers, was bound for a northern destination.

It had been uncoupled to water the engine when the goods train crashed into It, telescoping cars and wrecking loaded trucks.

Some of the soldiers were pinned beneath the wreckage, but those who escaped did splendid work rescuing and alleviating the sufferings of the injured. Much impromptu first-aid, work was necessarv as the special medical train did not arrive until about eight hours after the crash.