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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 207, 2 September 1870, Page 2

A dreadful collision occurred a few days siuce on the Baden Railway. A mixed passenger train from Constauce entered the station at Murg in the afternoon. An engine and tender from Waldshut, and proceeding to Bole, followed at some distance. When the passenger train had entered the Murg station the usual danger signals were set, but the driver of the engine which followed had been drinking, and, neglecting to observe the siguals, ran into the station, where the locomotive dashed into the rear of the stationary train, and a fearful scene of suffering and death was at once produced. Three carriages filled with passengers were completely crushed, the last oue being forced into that before it. When the smoke and dust caused by the collision had cleared off, it was found that; nearly 60 passengers were more or less buried under the wreck of the carriages. The wounded, nearly thirty in number, were attended by surgeons summoned bytelegraph from the nearest towns. The townspeople were so furious at the criminal misconduct of the engine-driver that it was with difficulty they were restrained from enforcing Lynch-law.