DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 3018, 21 October 1872, Page 4

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

A distressing accident occurred on the Mount Alexander Railway, one afternoon, between Golden square and Sandhurst. The half-past four o’clock mixed train was running down the incline to Sandhurst, and when near the third arched bridge at Golden square, tlie driver, Rennie, saw a female child on the up Melbourne rails, a short distance down the line. The little thing became terrilieci upon seeing the iron monster gliding towards her, and attempted to cross the dcuvu rails, but before the child had time to escape, the tr.dn came along with great velocito. To have pulled up the engine would have becnan utter impossibility, as the driver did not see the child until within a very short distance off, there being a curve in the lino, and an embankment in that locality. The stoker blew the whistle as loud as he could, shut off the steam, and reversed the engine, but all without avail, and she was killed on the spot. The name of the deceased was Edith i'.'mma, tire daughter of an engineer named / raddth, who is in the employ of the Happy-go-Lucky Company, and she was four and-a half years old. In connection with the accident a very painful incident occurred. The grandmother of the poor child was a passenger in the train on tier way to Mr Fraddth’s home at Golden square ; and, it is thought, being told her grandmother was coming by the train, the giil —a line, intelligent one—went to the railway expecting to meet her, and thus met with a Iron idle death. The grandmother, upon seeiirg from the carriage window what had happened, fainted.