ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3644, 27 October 1874, Page 3

ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.

An accident occurred on the Dunedin and Clutha Radway, a little distance beyond R tnsingtoß, early this morning. It appears that a ballast' train was shunting four empty trucks on to the siding at Hillside, Caversham, the trucks from the train, and the train from Green Island, which leaves there at 8 ?0 o’clock, coming in sight, the engine with the ballast waggons shunted to get out of the way of the other train, while the four empty trucks, being di connected, were left on the line, the consequence being that the Green Island passenger train ran into them. Iwo of the empty trucks were thrown off the rails by the collision, but no part of the Green Island train was thrown off Some passengers ha\ e been more or less cut and bruised, but no person was seriously injured. As fxr as we can learn, those who sustained injury wereMr Charles Samson, much cut about the face; Mr Holmes (his clerk), cut and bruised on the leg ; Mr Rutherford (clerk to M’Landress, Hepburn, and Co.), out on the leg ; Miss Thomson, daughter to Mr J. T, Thomson, Commissioner of Crown Lands, severe cut on the eye. The following were among those who were severely shaken :—Mr Britton, master of the Indus trial School; Mr Gibson, clerk to Russell, Ritchie, aud Co.; Mr J. H, Pope, master at the Girin’ High School; Mr Baxter and Mr iScoiilar. The accident is purely attributable to the carelessness of the locomotive foreman, whose admission of the fact caused Mr Conyers, the railway manager, to at once dismiss him. The discharged has rendered himself liable to severe punishment.