FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 144, 31 August 1881, Page 2

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

MELBOURNE, Yesterday.

A serious accident occurred this morning on the Melbourne and Hawthorn Bailway, near Jolimont. • A tire of one of the wheels broke while the engine was proceeding between Bichmond and Jolimont, when the engine and all the carriages left the rails at the station gates of the latter place. Some of the carriages capsized, and several of the passengers were injured, some of them seriously. Later intelligence from the scene of the railway accident at Jolimont shows that four persons were- killed — viz., Mr. Garritt, Baptist minister, of Brighton ; Mr. Jamison, a law clerk ; Mr. Bailliere, publisher; and a laborer, whose name, is unknown. The following are the names of the injured : — Seriously : Messrs. Biss and Lyons — both auctioneers. Slightly injured: Major Grash, Messrs. Fosberry (of the Crown Law Office), Elmstie, Benwick, Stephen, and others.

Latee. ;

The 1.20 p.m. .train, which met with the accident this morning at Jolimont, was an express from Brighton to Melbourne. The disaster occurred at 9 a.m. When the train ran off the line, three carriages were hurled over an embank- 1 ment into a swamp ; one first class was smashed to pieces, and the other two were overturned. Three passengers were .extricated dead from the' first class carriage. The scene as the place of disaster was most distressing, and great exoitenlent prevails throughout the city and suburbs over the occurrence. Traffic on the line is entirely suspended. The following additional names of injured passengers have transpired;:— Edwards, Wright, and Edwards.