MELBOURNE.
August 30. A serious accident occurred this morning on the Melbourne and Hawthorn railway, near Jolemount. A tire of one of the wheels broke while tbe train was proceeding between Richmond and Jolemount, when the engine and all the carriages left the rails at the station gates at 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 Jolemont shows that four persons have been killed, viz., Mr Garrett, Baptist minister, of Brighton ; Mr Jameson, law clerk; Mr Bailliere, publisher; and a laborer whose name is unknown. The following are the names of those injured seriously : —Messrs Bliss, and Lyons, bofh auctioneers, slightly injured ; Major Geach, Mr Fosbery, of the Grown Lands Office ; Messrs Elmsley, Stephen, Renwick, and others.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3173, 30 August 1881, Page 3
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