RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8322, 2 January 1907, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

DISASTER IN SCOTLAND. Received December 31, 11.36 p.m. LONDON, December 30. While the Caledonian Company's train from Arbroath to Dundee was waiting at Elliott Junction for the signal to proceed, the North British express, travelling at the rate of twenty.miles an hour, crashed into the rear of the staionary train, and telescoped the guard's van and the coaches adjoining. When the engine • overturned, the driver, Gourlay, was thrown clear, but the fireman, Irvine, was pinned underneath. He -still survives.

, The" side of one carriage was torn out, revealing a confused mass of dead and injured. Twenty passengers were killed and thirty-seven wounded. Gourlay declares that all the signals showed the line to be clear. Others believe that the danger signal was clogged with snow. Received January 1, 10.37 p.m. LONDON, January 1". Driver Gourlay has been arrested >on a'charge of reckless driving. CATASTROPHE IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, December 31. A passenger train and a goods train collided on the Baltimore-Ohio railway, near Washington. The deaths are estimated at between fifteen and forty. The injured number a hundred. COLLISION IN GERMANY. BERLIN, December 3 1. The Hamburg-Cologne express collided with a goods train at Ottersberg . Five persons were killed and six injured.-

Received January 1, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, January 1

The wrecking of the postal van in the Otterberg railway accident caused the destruction of a .large parcel of bonds, which were being sent to Paris, London. Brussels and Antwerp for settling day. The; Bourse estimate *the losses at 15 to 20 ! million marks.