THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 8811, 28 April 1892, Page 2

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

[By Elbctbio Telegraph.—Oopybight.] .. [Peb Press Association.)

SYDNEY, Apkil 27.

(Received April 28,1892. at 1.15 a.m.)

The names of the other persons injured in the railway acoident are Lily Macdonald, O'Shea, and Thomas.

Doig waa formerly a commercial traveller, having his headquarters in Dunedin. Caesidy, an ex Queentland resident, who aooompanied him on the ill-fated journey, escaped unhurt. The other bodies have been identified as those of Millis, Ashwell, W. Agree (photographer), Charles Tailby, and Mrs Cowel or Carroll. The guard and the mail agent had a marvellous escape from instant death. As it was, they received several injuries. The engine-driver states that the rail was broken in five different plaoei.

Those who were killed must have suffered terrible agony. Some of the bodies were literally ground to pieces against the granite cutting which flanked the line; several pieces of flesh and fragments of clothing were found among the debris. The body of a woman who has not yet been identified was literally cut to pieces. Ten persons occupied the car, which contained a mail compartment, and of that number on]y one escaped with life. 'The brain was drawn by an engine known as " The Baldwin," which: glass is now the subject of an inquiry by a royal commission with regard to ite suitableness to New South Wales railwavs. SYDNEY, April 28.

(Beoolved April 28, 1892, at noon.)

The damage to the rolling stock in the railway accident is estimated at about L 30.000. The accident is the most disastrous which has ever occurred in Australia. The train was travelling at the rate of twenty miles per hour, aad when the aocident happened the driver managed to stop within 100 yds. Very little shock was experienced in the front part of the train. The night was dark and cold, and for a time the scene was one of terrible confusion.

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TIMARU, Aran. 28.

Doig, who was killed in the railway accident near Sydney, was brother-in-law of Mr D. Stuart, grain merchant here. His mother lives with the daughter and son-in-law at Timaru. Doig had been in Australia about nine months.