FOUR MEN KILLED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 3

FOUR MEN KILLED.

TRAIN COLLIDES WITH A TROLLEY. TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Melbourne, April 18. A train at War hurt on crashed into a trolley containing sixteen men. Four men, named Peberdy, Hallam, Baxter and James, were killed, and several others were seriously injured. A portion of the Warburton line was being re-laid, and the men were proceeding to work. The trolley was running down a deep incline near Wandin, and the rain made the lines slippery. The men lost control of the trolley, and ran on to a bridge just as the train ’from Warburton rounded a curve. There was no time to avoid a collision. Two men, named Hayes and Ryan, jumped off the trolley, and fell over the side of the bridge and were terribly injured. The others wore thrown in all directions. Besides the four killed, eight were injured by colliding with the train. The injured men were conveyed to Lilydale hospital. Later reports state that only four were killed. The others jumped off before the collision. Only three were injured, two rather seriously. The others suffered from shock. Baxter’s body was carried some distance by the engine before it dropped over the bridge. He, Pebedry and James were recently arrived immigrants. The trolley was smashed to atoms, and the engine damaged.