BUSH TRAMLINE FATALITY.
ENGINE JUMPS THE RAILS. THE DEIYEE KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Taihape, August 23. A-terrible fatality occurred at Eaugataua on Thursday afternoon. The Powell Process Company's bush tntrajino engine ■with trucks, carrying four logs to the mill, was travelling down,a steep grade when, owing to slippery rails, it got out of hand. It rapidly increased its velocity. After covering half a mile, and when rounding a curve, the brakesman shot off into the scrub. He was unhurt, though he received a' great shock. Two chains further on the engine jumped the rails, and the heavy load crashed into the engine, and the driver, Percy Small, was killed instantly. The engine pushed ahead for half a chain, and then overturned, the logs going two chains further. The trucks were smashed to matchwood, and the raile torn up. Tho deceased was a single man, 26 years of age. His parents live at Nelson, whither the body was taken to-day in charge of his brother, who is the relieving statioamaster at Itangataua. An inquest.was held, A verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1527, 24 August 1912, Page 7
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187BUSH TRAMLINE FATALITY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1527, 24 August 1912, Page 7
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