RAIDERS WRECK TRAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18335, 27 February 1923, Page 7

RAIDERS WRECK TRAIN.

• . nfr •- ■ ! OUTRAGE NEAR DUBLIN. I ; A COLLISION FOLLOWS. ORDEAL FOE PASSENGERS. » " - ' , The wrecking of a goods train at KilI lester, County Dublin, yesterday, nearly ; had terrible results, ' wrote the Dublin correspondent of the London Times on | January 7. Killester lies just outside • Dublin on the Great Northern line, and , the 7.20 a.m. goods train from Amiens ; Street station had reached 1 the little ' village when it was stopped by a party ' of armed men. The driver and the fireI man were ordered .to leave their engine, which was sent along the line toward ' . Howth and was derailed by. the lifting of a rail. The whole train toppled over • and part of the engine fell across the up 1 line from Howth to Dublin. ! In the meanwhile a passenger train 1 carrying over 50 workers and city business ' men had left Howth for the city. Fear--1 ing that this train would run into the wreckage in the dark the driver of the ' goods train asked the armed men to 1 allow him to run down the line with a red lamp, in order that he might warn 1 the approaching engine-driver. Per mis- " sion was granted, but it was too late._ The wrecked train lay across the rails ■ just round a curve, and before the driver ■ of the passenger train had time to beed • his colleague's warning his engine - had run into the wreck Fortunately only a small portion of the derailed: train . lay across the up; line, but' it was ' sufficient to tear the sides out of several passenger coaches before the driver was able to bring the engine to a standstill. - The passengers were terrified by the ' grinding crash of ,the impact, and seven of theiy were injured by glass and wood splinters. Luckily none of them ! was seriously hurt, but they all' suffered from severe shock, and many of them fainted with fright. Three of the carriages on the passenger train were smashed completely and cannot be again. The wreciers, of course, decamped as soon as their work was - finished, and although Free State troops arrived shortly "afterwards and searched the neighbourhood, ;f no arrests were made. . ' ' The injured were nearly: all working men, and this fact added greatly to the ! indignation ( which is felt throughout the district at the outrage. If the goods engine had fallen another few feet across the Tip line' nothing would have saved a fatal crash.