RAILWAY ENGINES COLLIDE
■ A FIREMAN KILLED.. tßy Teleeraph.-Prwi Association.) Dunedln, May 16. Two engines collided in tho railway yards last night about 11 o'clock One, travelling backwards, was going'to tho sheds; tho other, moving ahead, was proceeding to the platform. . Tho tender of tho first engine hit tho corner of tho second engine, which was a small one, crushing tho tender in against tho firebox Unci boiler, and terribly mutilating fireman David Donovan, whoi must havo been killed instantly. Tho driver escaped injury. It is. not clear how the accident happened. Both engines carried lights. Donovan was a married man, with oneyoung child.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2151, 18 May 1914, Page 5
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103RAILWAY ENGINES COLLIDE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2151, 18 May 1914, Page 5
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