REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1537, 31 August 1881, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MELBOURNE. Melbourne, August 30. A serious accident occurred this morning on the Melbourne and Hawthorn Railway, near Jolimont. A tire of one of the wheels broke while the train was proceeding between Richmond and Joiiraont, 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 passengers were injured, some of them seriously. Later intelligence from the scene of the railway accident at Jolimont shows that four persons have been killed, viz. :—Mr Garnett, Baptist Minister, of Brighton ; Mr Jameson, law clerk ; Mr Bailliere, publisher; and a laborer, whose name is unknown. The following are the names of the injured :—> Seriously: Messrs Bliss, and Lyons, both auctionee.-s. Slightly injured : Major Geach, Messrs Fosbery, of the Crown Law Office; Messrs Elmslie, Stephen, Renwick, and others.

Latest. The 9.20 a.m. train which met with the accident this morning at Jolimont, was an express from Brighton to Melbourne. The disaster occurred at 9 a.m. when the train ran off the line. Three carriages were hurled over the embankment into the swamp. One first-class carriage was smashed to pieces, and the other two were overturned. Three passengers were extricated dead from the first-class carriage. The scene at the place of the disaster was most distressing, and great excitement prevails throughout the city and suburbs over the occurrence. Traffic on the line is entirely suspended. The following additional names of injured passengers have transpired ;—Mr Edward Wright and Mr Edwards.