RAILWAY DISASTER IN VICTORIA

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12766, 7 February 1910, Page 3

RAILWAY DISASTER IN VICTORIA

GOODS TRAIN DERAILED. RUNS INTO BUFFER STOPS. THREE MEN KILLED. OVERWORKED OFFICIALS. lI'BIM AMOWATIOS-COMWOm-J ( Received Feb 6, 5 p.m.) <«ccci Melbourne, Feb. .6. A coods train, drawn by two engines, Rusfell of the second engine, were Sn3 1 instantty, and fireman GiUan, of the fiwt engine, died subsequent- & while driver Gronn of the leading goods engine standing on the line, ho twitched the Ararat train into ?he was terrific. The leadine engine was derailed, while ihe second one and its tender were crumpCoward was found clinging to a le%er while Russell was holding on to the brake. Gillan was pinned under the engine, and it took three and r half hours to release him. Complaints are made that the crew of the train had been on duty_ior eighteen hours without a break. Coward is stated to have remarked to ma wife "There is sure to be a smash -.>-»e of these days. We have to work so long we are often half asleep on mo job? 1