MELBOURNE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3559, 5 December 1882, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

December 4. The following are the names of others seriously injured by the Hawthorn collision :—S. Evilles, injuries to legs and back, and a severe shock to the system ; Laura Brown, aged 12, fractured leg ; Scorfield, a tailor, internal injuries, and now in a critical state ; Smith, a solicitor, concussion of tho brain ; Mrs Lawlor, a landlady, concussion of the spine ; Laurence, a ecbool-boy of Kew, broken leg; Oochrem, a clerk, fractured ribs. The injuries to the other passengers are not of a serious character. Most of the sufferers are now progressing favorably. An inquest will be opened to-morrow, and after the inquest a court of enquiry into the circumstances which led to the collision will be held. The station master at Hawthorn has been suspended. It is expected that the damages to be awarded to those injured will be much greater than those by the Jolimont accident last year. December 5. Thomson, the Hawthorn stationmaster, has stated that he believed the special train from Boxhill and the train from Melbourne should cross at Burnleystreet, Richmond, a short distance beyond the eoene of the collision. It appears, however, that such crossing was not possible, and a controversy is proceeding between certain railway officials regarding the time-table. It is understood that there was a mispriut in some of the tables, which did not show that the special train should stop at Hawthorne. \ It appears there is no telegraph between

Hawthorne and Burnley-etreet. Public feeling strongly urges a complete chaDge in the system of working the lines.