TWO TRAM-DRIVERS KILLED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 267, 12 November 1907, Page 5

TWO TRAM-DRIVERS KILLED.

PASSENGERS BADLY' SCALDED

[press association.] (Received Nov. 11, 6.42 p.m.)

SYDNEY, Nov. 11. A disastrous tramway boiler explosion occurred at Concord to-day.

■ Two steam trams had pulled up to exchange staffs, when suddenly the boiler of one. exploded with a deafening roar, the force of the explosion blowing the engine's tank 30 yards away.

McCullongh, the driver of one engine, was killed instantly; Barclay, the driver of the other, succumbed at the hospital.

A conductor and several passengers were severely scalded, and two were removed to the hospital.