BLAZING TRUCK ON A TRAIN.
, WAS THE ENGINE RESPONSIBLE P. , (From Our Special Correspondent.) Palmerston, January 16. Whilst the afternoon train was' proceed* ing to Foxton on Friday a truck of dressed flax (about fifty bales) took fire within a short .distance of Foxton. , The truck was uncoupled from the passenger cars, and, together with the flax it contained, was completely- destroyed. The truck, was new the engine, and, though. completelycovered with two thicknesses of tarpaulins, it is thought, a spark from the locomotive must have made its way to the fibre by some means.- Tlie losa amounts to about £200. - ' . *
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 4
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101BLAZING TRUCK ON A TRAIN. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 4
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