One Killed and Thirty Injured.
MELB JCRNE, December 2. A shocking railway Occident occurred at 6.30 this evening on tho Melbourne and Hawthorn railway Hoe. A special train, returning from a land sale at Vnuxball, passed Hawthorn station without stopping, ul;1 when it had turned the corner of Kiclimond Park came into collision with a train from Melbourne to Hawthorn, travelling on the fame lino of rails at a speed of 20 miles an hour. Tho engine of the Melbanrne train was driven through a lint-class carriaee next it, which it completely telescoped, the engine passing the greater portion of tho vehicle. 'Ibo second and third carriages of the Hawthorn train were likewise telescoped, the wheels of one carriage resting on the seats of the other, There were many patsengcrs in tbo trains at tho time of the collision, and 20 to 30 are injured, several very badly, and tbo case of tome is deemed hopeless. So far as is at present known, however, dodo were killed out* right.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3840, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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