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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1916, Page 3

The engine of the Laun:sest<> r i (Tasmania) express was derailed at Colebrook and turned a summers t'ni <lown an embankment. The train was crowded with passengers and ion' i-orp.-t tis were killed; and twelve injur l ". l . The driver of the engine, realizing the danger of the boiler exploding, crawled to the engine and turned on the cocks, in doing which lie was so severely scalded that he" succumbed. - Almost the whole of the skin was ecaldedl off his body and he was suffering intense agony, but he said to a rescuer: "Leave mc mates. Get to the otliera." C—a——l—