More Railway Accidents.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 296, 9 May 1889, Page 2

More Railway Accidents.

Sydney, May 7

Another accident has occurred on the Junes railway line, by which several trains were wrecked and eight passengers injured, seriously it is feared in the case of one or two A portion of the line had been washed away by the floods.

Albury, April 24—An awkward accident causing much alarm to passengers happened to the express train from Melbourne last night. The train had reached a point between Chiltern and Barnawartha when the occupants of the carriage next the engine were alarmed by an extraordinary noise similar towhat might be produced by repeated blows of a hammer on the floor of the carriage, or like the sound of heavy stones thrown violently against the woodwork. The passengers opened the carriage door, and then perceived fl imes issuing from near one of the wheels, which did not appear to be revolving. Showers of sparks and flames continued to be emitted, and spread along under the entire length of the carriage. The usual means of communication with the guard of the train not being provided, the occupants began shouting to attract the attention of the enginedriver, who, however, apparently did not hear. By this time all the passengers in the train had become alarmed, and the whole of the carriage doors were open and people shouting, but no notice was taken by the driver. This continued for some light or ten minutes, and ultimately a passen ger got out of one of the hindmost carriages and proceeded along the footboard to the engine, and informed the driver, who forthwith stopped the train, and put matters right. The driver declined to state the precise nature of the mishap, but the passengers believe the train had gone through a ga»e and a portion of the woodwork bad in some way become entangled in the wheels of the carriage. Much unfavorable comment was occasioned by the absence from the first carriage of. the usual means of electric communication.