RAILWAY SMASH.
CARRIAGES SMASHED INTO
MATCHWOOD. NO SERIOUS INJURIES TO PASSENGERS, A DROVER’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12.57 p.m., Sept. 23 Sydney, Sept. 27. A serious railway smash occurred at Lawson.
Owing to the breaking of the drawbar of a passenger carriage attached to a stock train on a steep grade, the driver loft two passenger cars and a brake van standing on the rails, and went on to the nest station with the stock portion. Meanwhile the ordinary passenger train, ■which was detained, wont to Worth Falls, awaiting the arrival of the stock train.
The porter, unaware of the portion left on tho lino, sent the passenger train ahead, and it crashed into the two carriages and brake van standing on the line, and smashed them to matchwood. The colliding engine was badly damaged, and with four carriage and tho brake-van, left the rails.
Nono of the passengers were seriously iujured. One received a bruiso on tho leg. A drover sleeping in a carriage belonging to the stock train, miraculously escaped. After the collision he was taken out of the debris uninjured, excepting for a slight gash on the cheek.
The damage to tho rolling stock is very heavy.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1007, 28 September 1903, Page 2
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