A terrible railway accident, attended by serious loss of life,
took place on the Taff Vale Railway on Monday morning just before 10 o'clock. A train running from Swansea to Cardiff, and containing some two hundred passengers, dashed into a mineral train standing on the same line about a mile from Pontypridd Station, telescoping four out of the first five carriages. Eleven persons were killed outright, including three members of the South Wales Miners' Federation, Messrs. Tom George, W. H. Morgan, and Tom Harris, who were on their way to attend a meeting at Cardiff ; Mr. Powell, the Calvinistic Methodist minister of Caerphilly; Mr. Hodges of Ferndale and his son, a boy of nine, who was being taken by his father to see an oculist at Cardiff. Mrs. Hodges, the mother, was dangerously injured, and in all forty of the passengers suffered more or less seriously from the shock. No official statement has been made as to the cause of the accident, which seems to have been due either to an error on the part of the signalman, or to the overrunning of the signals by the passenger train.
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