RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 98, 26 May 1876, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A terrible accident occurred on Mon> day morcing at the junction of, v tlie Waiareka and Maheno lines, Oamaru district. The contractors' cn r ine, the " Rover/ was. just- getting ready - to move some ballast trucks, .ivhen the boiler exploded, with a terrific. report which was'piainjy and audibly heard in Oamaru. portions of the engine, and boiler were r 'scatrered;in aH.djrectiph*. A yoking, man.^named' Alex. Taylor, . clerk of; works, who, was standing; on the engine, at the time, was blown v np into the air a ; distance of j&pft., and his lifeless'.tio.dyjlel^bn.'.the main t line in ivfearr fully. mangied §ta^e^, f Wi.lisun Mjitchelj, engine, driver, 'Vustajnecl a, compound fracture, of the right .thign/ frapture; of the/ right .fie*,' below ! the. knee, also of three ribs, on the same side, dislocatioti of the ii^ lit ancle, serious bruises about tUe head, and slight concujjsipn of the brai n. He died the same ey ., n in g, A ran n, named Ed ward . Ken nudy is also seriously hurt, having con t used wounds/ all over his body,. and uthera I werd- slightlyinjureigl „[".., ( . .. „ ... '. '..-, An inqm st was. hi'.ld on. Tue d »y, when, a yerd:cv was rt;fcui;ned( in/,abcor"ddnce with; the a|)P.ye^|acts.7^iM. IJ[ury1 J[ury ajsq considered that ., the , expjoSpn^wag diw to ;the ih^ tied down,, and > thjit s ,seyere i censure is due to v the p^nnerbrs;.; >or tjie fact of their;, knowing- thV^e^ijjency, t| pf the ?i^ w %te^ie^en^.^peyM^; efabiishme.n^^^^^ MM wy^^w '•■»■■' "& the >mj)lpy n^j eu t^ ot^ C(ynpej^D t . p£ wqns that a lockup valve^ free > trol.pf," the driver/ Bhould|^^)^f^|)i^i I al j boilers as aemeahs of 'jVi-ev^u tiug^l^J . recurrence i of .suck^icqidyiits. ; A-:f^ i^p|