TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5249, 21 April 1908, Page 3

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT

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I Many Killed and Wounded. Several Roasted. A Fearful Scene. (United Preu Association.) ■ [gy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 8.50 •.».) MELBOURNE, Tbii day ■ i dreadful railway collision occurred night, near Braybrook, the ■ finctioo where the Bendigo and Ballarat I triioi ®**t- ■ A heavily laden passenger train from I Bendigo crashed into a train whioh had I jolt arrived from Ballarat. I' Twenty-seven were killed outright ■iod about 100 were injured. [Received 9.31 a.m.] ■ Tbs aocident was the most appalling ■disaster in Victorian railway history. ■ Tb> j m pact of the trains was terrilio. ■fne forsmust carriages were smashed to ■■itcbwood and the wrecked traine im- ■ mediately caught fire, adding to the ■horror. ■ The line was strewn with wreckage I I dead. Tha woman’s shrieks Knd the cries of tho injured were heartBjadiog* ■ At 11.30 special train left Melbourne l. lt b a medical corps and equipment. Kb e nr# brigade sunt out detachments ■) Braybrook, whioh is about seveu from tho town. F The collision occurred a little before ■l o’olock. The ballast train was a ■ills lsts iu coming out of the station, Brbso the Boudigo train, drawn by two K}t#rful engines, crashed into the rear, ■be ballast train was going so slowly ■bit tbs force of tho impact was uu■tuned to any considerable extent. Kj| guard's van of tho latter train was Splintered to pieces and tho first class Kr telescoped. Throe of the cars ■ers crowded with passengers and tha ■(apartments ware so full that where ■hij took lira a horrible scene was wit■tiled, the dead and dying being im■rtioosd within the burning debris and ■we roasted to death before they could ■taxtrioated. ■ when tha reliof train arrived, shortly ■fur midnight, it was found that tha ■litlorm was strewn with dead aud Hounded. The shrieks of the terror ■mokeo womeu and strong men in H«ooy ovsrpowored the strongest nerves. Hi mao, who was groaning on tha Hutlorm, cried out, “ Shoot me for Hod’i isko and end my Bufferings.” ■ Meoical men reudored every aid posHbli. The fire brigade put out the Horoiog carriages H Many haartrending scenes are doHnbsd by the survivors. One states a bsttlelield scan# could not have Hnoworie than tho Sunshino Harvoster Hforki, whero the injured ware attended , Ha saw a large number of people Horribly mutilated. Indeed it was the to come across any one who Hal not been injured in some form. number of passeugers were itncken aud lost tbair head", and ■ 1 Hided by their wild rushes, to the terror H tbs catastrophe. I List of the Killed. [Received 9 50 a.m.] Hit is impossible to give a list of the but amongst those identified are : Blind llliugson, Maria Danuook, Amy Alice l.atlin, while those seriously Hjirid are: Jessie Williams, Alex Hlinr, Rose Acreman, Annie Martin, Peters, l*. Oxlade, George NeedPercy Walsh, VV. Young, Wilfred Hqroolds, J. Varty, Ethel Lynch, G. Hotter, aud 43 less seriously. ■ All the victims so far as is known are Hietoriaos. A bride aud bridegroom Hn oo their honeymoon. The bride Hu killed and her husband seriously

(Received 12.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This day Tbs list of killed is not yet available K the latest is that 41 bodies have Ho rsoovered and 00 injured. Tha sUtionmaster at Sunshine stated to ha set the points for the Ballarat hm to come iuto tha station, but the Nr of the Bendigo train disregarded n with the result that the No r»o over the points and smashed the Ballarat traiu. Milburn, the Nr of the Bendigo train, stated that N "Mtioghouse brake refused to act. I Hsd tbs Ballarat train, which was 45 potei late, got away to time, the colP*°o would not have happened. I A g'uesome scene was displayed by |L k!!*™ 1 imbalance corps, r* “°Ns of men and women with |* r leaturoi marred beyond recognimangled limbs were lying about L. Ptofortn. A corpse with its head P y close to the body of a mother 1 babe clasped in her arms. I igreateat ditlloulty was experienced i**tncati»g the corpses, many of the F** impaled ou the ends of 'Pliotared wood work. 1 M “ l j ar# unlikely