THE LATEST. [Received April 4, 2.30 a.m.] Melbourne, April 4.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1833, 5 April 1884, Page 2

THE LATEST. [Received April 4, 2.30 a.m.] Melbourne, April 4.

The enquiry into the Little River railway collision commences on Saturday. Mi 1 Hick man Molesworth, the County Court Judge, will act as pre3ident of the Court of Inquiry. Craik, the driver, and a passenger by the train have died from injuries received by the collision. A list giv ing names of 23 persons seriously injured has been published. Many others are slightly injured. Everything tends to conh'im the frightful nature of the shock. The trucks were heaped upon one another for a distance of twenty feet, and the tender was on top of the engine. The scene was a pitiful one until help arrived. This w»s not till four hours had elapsed. Mr Bicldle, the VVerribee stationmaster, has confessed his responsibility for the catastrophe. The staff system is, it appears, partially in abeyance on the Victorian lines. Accounts of the Sunbury disaster state that the explosion was terrific. Several trucks were smashed and the fire-box, weighing half-a-ton, was blown a distance of 300 yards.

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