An Engine-Driver mad with Drink.
*_ Great consternation occurred among the passengers by the express train from Adelaide to Melbourne on Friday. Owing to the jolting of tha train, geveral passengers were thrown out of their seats, and received cuts and bruises, while the luggage in the guard's van was thrown out of the racks. The engine-driver, who was mad with drink, was the cause. At Nhill he began to tamper with the engine, sending it full speed ahead. The fireman, seeing that tha driver was hurling the train on to destruction, endeavoured to overpower him, and a desperate struggle ensued on tha engine. The fireman, however, managed to stun the man and pulled the train up. The guard took the fireman's place, and tha latter acted as driver for the rest of the journey.— Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, 10 August 1895, Page 3
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136An Engine-Driver mad with Drink. Manawatu Herald, 10 August 1895, Page 3
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