TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 37, 25 October 1882, Page 3

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

* ' O One of the v ost terrible railway accidents ever recorded in GrruKiiiv happened on September 10th, near Freiburg-, in Baden, resulting in the immediate death of over fifty-two persons and the «evere wounding and mutilation of twice as many. It seems that a special Sunday excursion train, while returning- from Freiburgto Cohnar, was suddenly thrown off the rail? near a stat on called Hu>stetten and smashed to pieces. There were twenty-sux carriages, and most of them are said to have been completely shattered. In them were passengers, mostly Alsacians, and the above list of dead and wounded, which has yet to be supplemented, is the sti ry of their fa'e. Some of the suffering- survivors were taken to the Uni versify bu'ldiiiirs at Frei*iur»- and f'rpfuliy ter d-d 'I lv- whole district has leen thrown into great excitement. ?omi' of tli^ d'^ad were mutiIxted beyond recognition. Tlie caii^ of the coTa-rr/'jilm is not decisively «ra*ed. It ipp-;irs thnr the train was ovortaken by n, very h^avy storm of wind :ind violent rain. Bui while one nccount a-cribe? tbe disaster to the wn«hino" away of part of the em-bankm»-jit by an over tl-witig 1 brook. aiidth.T version has ir, ili.tr a feji^raph pest i.jul b-en Mown across the line, and ilms thrown iho engine off the rails — London Telco-raph.