THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1908. THE BRAYBROOK CATASTROPHE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9070, 22 April 1908, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1908. THE BRAYBROOK CATASTROPHE.

The terrible railway disaster at Braybrook Junction, near Melbourne, reported in our cable columns, is the most appalling catastrophe in Victorian railway history. In the darkness of the night the Bendigo train, double-engined, dashed into a packed excursion train from Ballanit, and in an instant thirty-seven poisons were mangled corpses and sixty desperately injured. Some spiked by splintered woodwork, some jatnbed between carriages that telescoped* and others burned alive in flaming Wiethe air rent with the groans of impaled or crushed men, women and children, anil the shrieks of the painstricken injured and affrighted uninjured passengers —such awful scenes and sounds almost baffle imagination, and are impossible of adequate description. The heartfelt sympathy ofjeveryone in the dominion will go out to those who have injured, and to those whose friends and relatives are lying dead and mangled as the result of the collision. The details of the smash-up which we publish are harrowing in the extreme, but the full extent of the sufferings of the vast crowd packed into the ill- ! fated train will never be known. '