AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

RAILWAY COLLISION

BATHT7RST, March 18. A railway accident which lTiigh have resulted in great loss of hi©, occurred at Wambool, 15 miles east ot Batliurst, at a quarter-past twelve this morning. A goods train proceed ing westwards was standing, m the sidinfr to allow the second division of the mail train to Sydney to pass through. The brake-van of the goods train was projecting over the points on the mam line and the mail, which does not stop at small stations like this, on passing through, came into collision with the van, completely wrecking it. When the engine of the mail struck the brake-van it dislodged it from the wheels, but caused it to tall into sucn a position as to come into contact with the carriages of the train. An express Javatory car, containing about _.5U passengers, suffered most, it being considerablv damaged. One ot the occupants, a young woman named Mvie Newcombe, was slightly injured through being cut by glass from the broken windows. She also sustained slight shock. When the train was pulled up, the passengers, who numbered over 100, poured out like ra.*> from a burning building, and for some time considerable excitement prevailed. The women, particularly those who were in the compartment occupied by the injured young woman, we. e much but when told by oihcials the nature of the mishap, and that nobody had been seriously injured, they became calmer. How Guard J. Ausbern, who was m the wrecked brake-van, escaped serious injury, is unaccountable. He was sitting in the van when the engine crashed into it, and knocked it topsyturvy, but he escaped with a severe shaking and a few cuts and bruises.

HORSE AND RIDER KILLED

Herbert Harding (18), lately residing at Dangar-place, Sydney, vss killed through colliding with a tramcar, while on horseback. He had purchased a horse at the Camperdown saleyards, and was riding it into town. He 'had no bridle, and when opposite the University Hotel, at the Broadway, the animal took fright and became unmanageable. It bolted for ;x few hundred yards, and collided with an outward-bound tram, and was k;lied instantaneously. Harding . was thrown to the roadway and morta.ly injured. He was taken in a motorcar to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospitalj where he died shortly after admission.