THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA.
MELBOURNE, Apill 4. The inquiry into the Little River railway collision commences on Saturday. Mr. Hickeman Moles worth (County Court Judge) will act as president of the Court of Enquiry. Craik, the driver of the passenger train, died of injuries received by the collision. A list giving the names of twentythvee persons seriously inured has been published. Many others were slight ly injured. Everything tends to confirm the accounts first given of the nature of the shock. The trucks were heaped upon one another for a distance of twenty feet, and the tenders were atop of the engines. The scene was one of desolation. The state of the injured was most pitiful until assistance arrived — this not till twenty-four hours had elapsed. Biddle, the Werriba stationmaster, has confessed his responsibility for the catastrophe, The staff system is, it appears, partially in abeyance on the Victorian lines. Accounts of the Sunbury disaster state that the exploison was terrific. Several trucks were smashed, and the fire-box, weighing half a ton, was blown a distance of 300 yards.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 766, 5 April 1884, Page 2
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180THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 766, 5 April 1884, Page 2
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