MISHAP ON MAIN TRUNK.
SERIOUS.. DISASTER >NAIjROWLY AVERTED.
(PEERS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.I WELLINGTON, July: 18 ; At 5 o’clock tliis moraine: the engine of a goods train on a siding at llaul imu station overlapped the main line when the Auckland to Wellington express dashed in. • The. leading engine of the two on tli'o- express 'completely overturned. The driver and fireman escaped hurt through tlie lyimlow. The; fireman was sliglitlv • sealcJod. A. 'dining car and a hospital ■ oar m front of the express were telescoped, hut had no occupants. No passengers were injured in the other ears. Ihe engines on the express and the goods train were damaged. I rams were delayed four hours.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3985, 19 July 1915, Page 7
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