THE TASMANIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11502, 17 February 1916, Page 4

THE TASMANIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A HEROIC DRIVER

FOUR PERSONS KILLED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, Feb. 16. The accident occurred at a curve. Many passengers were pinned by the debris for a long time before they were released, the' relief train not arriving for two hours. Driver Goodchild, after leaving the cab, realising the danger of the boiler exploding, Heroically crawled back and turned off the cocks at the cost of a very severe scalding. Tue injuredjnclude two Anglican clergymen —Revs. Anderson (Victoria) and Baker (Launceston). The killed are Mrs Howell (President of the Geelong Y.W.0.A.), Miss Barrass (of the Bendigo Association), a man named Stubbs and Private Hall (the last-named being on a of fifty soldiers who were returning to camp from final leave). Hobart, Feb. 61. Driver Goodchild has succumbed. Though almost the whole of the skin was scalded off his bodj’ and he was suffering agony, be said to the rescuers, “Leave me, mates. Go to the others.” A second soldier—Private Quinn, not Stubbs—was killed.