Railway Collision.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 14, 30 September 1908, Page 9

Railway Collision.

A train running on the Berlin Elevated Electrio railway, disregarding a danger signal at a junction rammed another train broadside on, killing 30 passengers and injuring 20. Many of the victims were injured through coming in contact with the current. The collision threw a third-class car, full of passengers, off the line into a courtyard 20 feet below. The car was smashed to pieces, the occupants being crushed, many being killed outright. Another ear was thrown off the track, but it hung suspended by its couplings near a viaduct, the injured passengers screaming frantically until a party of firemen relifted the car on to the rails. Many were terribly mutilated, while one unfortunate passenger was decapitated. No one was injured aboard the moving train, which is supposed to have been responsible for the accident.