AN EXCURSION TRAIN DERAILED.

West Coast Times, Issue 13731, 30 January 1906, Page 3

AN EXCURSION TRAIN DERAILED.

Melbourne, Jan 29. An accident occurred to an excursion train on a narrow gauge line Ferntree Gall/ to Gembrook, becoming derail edit consisted of light covered trucks containing two hundred and fifty Melbourne excursionists and ffhen rounding a curve the engine left the line dragging with it three trucks crammed with passengers which ploughed some distance up the embankment and fell over on the side. There wa« a scene of wild excitement and when the passengers were extracted from the splintered trucks it was found about seventy had received injuries, the majority being slight. The most serious were Mesdames Kox and Earnest Gleeson injured internally, Mrs Gleeson, damaged arm, Feciver Sheehan a fractured wrist aad badly cut. Two or three others are suffering very severely froaa shocksTrains were dispatched from Melbourne and brought the excursion wounded back a great crowd waiting till early morning at Spencer Btreet station.