Child falls from a carriage

I again discovered something tonight on the National Library of Australia’s digital newspaper archives.

Here is a story from The Argus (Melbourne) dated October 5, 1893:

An accident happened on the Colac railway this afternoon, between the Pettavel Road and Germantown stations. Violet Gorey, aged 3 and a half years, a daughter of Mr John Gorey, of Rathdown Street, Carlton, who was travelling with her mother in a second class carriage of the tram from Colac, fell out of the carriage through the door suddenly opening. She was playing with the handle of the door at the time. The train travelled nearly a mile before it was stopped, and went back. The child was found lying face down wards and unconscious. On arrival at Geelong, Dr Max Wall examined the child, and said that no bones were broken but that she was suffering from slight concussion of the brain. Mrs Gorey, with the child, proceeded to Melbourne by train shortly after 6 o’clock.

John Gorey was my great-grandfather Edward’s brother, meaning Violet was my grandfather’s cousin.

Her brother Jim is the one I mentioned previously, who died in the Marvel Loch mine disaster of 1914.

Although Violet had a lucky escape (or an unlucky accident, if your glass is half empty), she sadly died in 1898, aged 8.

I don’t know how she died.