TWO TRAINS ON ONE LINE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 5

TWO TRAINS ON ONE LINE.

A VIOLENT COLLISION. BROKEN ARMS AND LEGS. [PEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 18, 0.53 a.m.) SYDNEY, April .17. At an early hour this morning the Brisbane mail train crashed into the second division of the Glen Innes mail train at Murrundindi. For some unexplained reason the two trains met!v on the one set of rails. ; The Glen Innes train was just moving out as the Brisbane mail came in. The former train was drawn by two engines. The trains came together with- a terrific impact^ and one locomotive shot on .tog of the other. The Glen Innes train, which had only a few passengers, suffered most. The first car was considerably wrecked, and all the occupants were more or less injured; Two compartments of the first car of the Brisbane mail were stove in, and the passengers hurtv A force of infantry bound for the Easter encampment rendered great service in extricating the injured. l The night was pitch-dark. It took some time to get the injured people out of the wreckage. , None of the passengers were killed j but the drivers and firemen had marvellous escapes. Twenty passengers were injured, two of them seriously; One man had his right arm and both legs broken, another both legs broken, and two others legs broken. The rest were cut or bruised.