A Diabolical Scheme
Hobart. September 24. Particulars show that the attempt to wreck the express train from Lauceston to Hobart on the 20th September was most determined and diabolical. Fish-plates had been knocked off the line for a considerable distance, and for fully half a mile obstacles were placed on the line, in one place •even sleepers being piled across the track. The train stopped right on Horseshoe Bridge, which was fully 80 feet from the bottom of the gully, the vacuum brake •topping the train in less than its own length. The engine was derailed, but the speed being stopped prevented her being hurled off the bridge. Had the engine fallen off the line it would bate carried with it the entire train, with a horrible result. The Assembly voted £25 each to the guard, stoker, and fireman, whose heroic conduct prevented a great calamity.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 82, 4 October 1893, Page 3
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146A Diabolical Scheme Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 82, 4 October 1893, Page 3
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