TRAIN ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1916, Page 5

TRAIN ACCIDENT.

, ON* A TASMANIA** LINE' By Cable,—Press Association— Copyrijty.; Hobart, Feb. 16. The Launccston express was derailed > at Oolebrook. Four were killed iM twelve injured. *• The engine jumped the rails and. turned a somersault over an embank* ment. The flrgt two carriages wew smashed, and there were indescribable* scenes of confusion amongst the 200 passengers, including .0 delegates to the Y.W.C.A. Conference and a number pi soldiers. FURTHER DETAILS. ' A HEROIC DRIVER. ■ , Reeeived Feb. 18, 10.55 p.m. ' Hobart, Feb. 1«. The accident occurred at 'Many .passengers were plnne. in' tft'o debris.for a long time before tbey were) released. The relief train did not arrive for two hours. Driver Goodchild, after leaving the cab, and realising the danger of tb,e boiler exploding, heroically crawled baclf ■ and turned of! the cocks, at the cost of a very severe scalding. The injured, include two Anglic*!*. clergymen, Revs. Anderson (Victor!*,) and Baker (Launccston). The killed we Mrs. Howell (President of the Geelong Y.W.C.A.), Miss Barrass (of the BendigO Association), a man named Stubbs, and Private Hall. The last-named was on* of fifty soldiers who were returning t6 camp from final leave. T "LEAVE ME, MATES: Received Feb. JO, 11.10 pjn. Hobart, FeVie. Driver Goodchild haH succutfljed, Though almost the wholo of the ijsb. was scalded off his body, and he was> v suffering agony, he said to the rescuer*, "Leave me, mates, and go to the others." A second soldier, Private Qulun (not Stubbs), was killed.