RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1428, 24 July 1915, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

ON MAIN TRUNK RINK. ENGINES AND CARRIAGE OVERTURNED. NO ONE INJURED. TAt'MARUNUi, Jlily 23. Passengers on the through Wellington to Auckland express, after a wail ol several hours through slips on the line, loft at 2.30 p.m. to-day in one train containing two engines in front, a postal van, one sleeper, eight carriages, and two luggage vans. When two miles north of here the embankment gave way under the second engine. The two engines and the postal van turned clean over —a drop of nine feet —partly into the Ongarue River. The driver in the leading euine applied the brakes in good time. The whole pumice bank gave way for fifty yards near the approach to the bridge. Over the culvert the train was going at a speed of two to three miles. The driver, Peter Doyle, and the fireman, Geo. King, jumped clear from the first engine and were not injured, Fireman A. Payne jumped clear from the second engine and escaped with slight injury to one baud. Driver W. M. Nicholson and District Jeffares rolled over in the cab ot the second engine and escaped without a scratch. Two Auckland postal officials rolled over in the van without injury. The sleeping car was| derailed and went partly down the bank empty. No passengers were injured.