ACCIDENT ON THE HAMPDEN RAILWAY WORKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3977, 23 November 1875, Page 3

ACCIDENT ON THE HAMPDEN RAILWAY WORKS.

accident, with serious results, occurred on t his line on the morning of Friday last. At a little before eight o’clock some railway laborers were proceeding to their woik iu a truck being driven before an engine, when, os they arrived at the crossing of the Dunedin road, by the White Rocks, about two and a half miles from town, the truck was thrown off the line by metal, and overturned. About twenty men were in the tnick. Those who were sitting on tho opposite side to that on which it went off were thiown clear of the truck, but othfiis fell with the truck over them. Six or seven were more or less cut about, but three were found seriously injured. Their names are James Crov, James M‘Bride, and .To n Beamish The latter has a fractured collar-bone and lacerated legs ; Crow is badly bruised all’ oyer; and M'Eride has received internal injuries he having fallen with his abdomen across tne ime, and the truck across the small of his back. Crow and Beamish are getting on toler‘aNyoWTimeßU’t M ‘ Bride ’ 8 Case “ a«™us.-

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RATAL ACCIDENT. A waggoner, named Charles Gibbons, was killed near Palmeiston on Saturday. While proceeding from Macrae’s Flat with a load of wool and when approaching the Rock Cutting, the horses bolted and the waggon was capsized, the deceased, who was driving, falling underneath, He was killed immediately. A verdict of “accidental death” was returned.