NAPIER TRAIN DISASTER
ALMOST A MIRACLE. ONE FATALITY. lIY TKl.KtiltAFU —I’IIKSS ASSN'., cocvnicnT NAPIER, September '22. A sensational and disastrous ariL dent happened to the Ihilmerston North-Napicr mail train at ten minutes past lour ye-1 rid ay aftcriionii, ,il a point about a liiih* on the Palmerston side of Opapn. 2',' miles from Napier, when an engine and lour carriages left the line and crashed into the sides of a cutting at the top of a hill. By a combination of lucky circumstances. that amount almost to a miracle. only one fatality occurred, the victim being Miss .Maurice Rigle.v. of Hastings. Ten or a dozen others were* injured, some severely. The engine iv:eiv**d unimportant damage, and one carriage had to lie severed from its fellows to avoid dost met ion. The material damage to the train and the casualties already recorded form the sum total of the injury caused by this dramatic incident, and it ia matter for congratulation to all concerned that the result grave as it is. was not more completely tragic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 2
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174NAPIER TRAIN DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 2
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