Later Details.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 110, 4 April 1884, Page 3

Later Details.

[Delayed m transmission befcweon Australia and New Zealand.] Details are now to hand regarding the iailw»iy accident at Little River. The trains met wi.h a terrific crash, the engines became locked with their iron work ilattened, and funnels touching. The tender of the cattle train was thrown off the line and the first truck with the wheels uppermost. The roof of the third was shattered, and the fourth broken iuto iragnjents. The fifth and sixth trucks were thrown off the line with the ironwork contorted. The train consisted of 35 trucks. The tender of the passenger train was thrown off the line and the wheels buried up to the axles, the tender itself being almost destroyed. The socond class carriage following was demolished and the roof of the next l.st class broken into matchwood. The debris is scattered m all directions. ! Kitclieu, the driver of the cattle train, who was driver m the Hawthorn accident,goV jammed between the engine and the tender .and die<l shortly after. A. woman, name, unknown, iv a second class carriage was injured internally and died. Craik, the driver of the. pasrfenger train, was jammed by the falling coal and had his thigh fractured. Six others were seriously injured, several slightly. W. .Collard Smith ' was slightly injured m the arm, the Hon. Thomas Qumroing who was a paseenger is uninjured. The accident w accounted for by the fact that Biddire, the master at Werribee,left his daughter, aged 14, m charge of the station. She gave the staff to, Kitchen, the driver of the cattle train, and telegraphed that the lino was clear.i The doctors arrived on the scene about: 1 a.m., when the injured were attended to and sent on here. It was raining at the time of the accident, and bonfires were lighted to keep the wounded dry. ■ ■ » ■ ■■ ■