A RAILWAY COLLISION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 7

A RAILWAY COLLISION.

« MAIL TRAINS PARTIALLY WRECKED. NO LIVES LOST. TWENTY INJURED. United Fres3 Association— By Eleotrifl Tclegr»ph — Copyright. SYDNEY, April 17. At an early hour this morning the . Brisbane mail train crashed into tbo second division of the Glen Innes mail train at Murrundindi. For some unexplained reason the two trains met on one set of rails. The Glen Innes train was just moving out as the Brisbane mail came in. The former train was drawn by two engines. The trains came together with a terrific impact, and one locomotive was shot on top of the other. The Glen Innea train, which had few passengers, suffered the most. The first car was considerably wrecked, and all the occupants were more or less injured. Two compartments of the first car of the Brisbane mail train were stove in and the passengers hurt. A force of infantry bound for an Easter encampment rendered great service in extricating the injured. The night was pitch dark, and ' it took time to get the injured people out of the wreckage. None of the passengers were killed, but the drivers and firemen had mai-vellous escapee. Twenty passengers were injured, two seriously. One man had his right arm and both legs broken, another had both legs broken, and two others had legs broken. The rest were cut and bruised.