'A railway collision which might, had it occurred during the hours of darkness, have been a terrible catastrophe, occurred during the afternoon of the 13th of September. An incoming and an outgoing suburban train collided at a distance of about half-n-mile from one of the city terminal stations. Fortunately the driver of the incoming train noticed that the other was on the wrong Tine, in xuficient time to take most of the way off his train, Still, the impact was sufficiently severe to derail the foremost carriages several passengers were treated to a bad shaking, coupled with shocks to the ne yates, but fortunately no severe injuries were reported. Both drivers and firemen after applying brakes to their utmost. capacity, were able to jump off their engines, escaping uninjured. The incoming train was well filled, and had the driver not noticed the danger as soon as he did, and taken prompt measures to diminish the force of the collision, the result would have been very different. No cause has as been assigned for the accident:, pending an enguiry by a departmental board, whose proceedings, contrary to the custom hitherto obtaining, are to be thrown open to the public. In all, some twenty passengers were more or less shaken, but after receiving medical treatment. on the spot, all, save one, were enabled to proceed to their several destinations.
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