ENGINE PLUNGES INTO STREET
DRIVER & FIREMAN JUMP CLEAR (Pkb United Press Associatiok.l CHRISTCHURCH, February 24. Uprooting in its path a Samson post in Middleton Yards, a railway engine plunged down a twelve-foot bank, ripped through a barbed wire fence, and came to rest live yards out on Matipo street yesterday afternoon. Had the driver and fireman not jumped clear the accident might have ended fatally. The damage to the engine is slight; the difficulty will be to get it back to the track.
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Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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83ENGINE PLUNGES INTO STREET Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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