TRAINS COLLIDE.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 5

TRAINS COLLIDE.

TRAVELLING AT FULL SPEED. I DRIVERS AND STOKERS KILLED. ai ELECTRIC TELEGHAFH COPYRIGHT. TIMES—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. Rieoeived September 26, 8.30 a.m. OTTAWA, Sept. 25. Two freight trains collided in Nova Sootia when travelling at full speed l . The drivers and stokers of both trains were killed' and two employees injured. The wreckage caught fire and was destroyed.

U.S. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. HUMANITARIAN VIEWPOINT. Received September 26, 12.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Mr Charles Neil (ex-Labor Commit sicner), addressing the National Council for Industrial Safety, said that if the railroad directors of the United States were compelled to spend 48 hours following the victims of railway accidents to the grave, they would soon take the humanitarian viewpoint of railroad wrecks. Mr Neil explained that the United States' unenviable record for railway accidents was due to the system whereby officials were encouraged to compete in reducing the cost of operating the railways with the consequent deterioration of equipment.