RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 27, 15 October 1884, Page 3

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

ftojifcion In g, Tunnel. HTmrrow Escape of (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AncKLAiitt, Tnisl B*y<. f ! k. '?.Whßl«fe.ftn.;eiigiiw'^as tajkffij m I coal and.being oijed it was sijriitik, bjr l / A'%^!«iiffi !: WBf' feeing ktiWeoV' with a force sufficient 46 mjiktf "the I regulator fall and start thef engine., TKtr fireman jumped., off i^ -'Mftrtn,leATMig^De engine ji^eas- 1 ingtjpeed^ The drive? wfe ■ thrown against .the water /tanks 'and two finger* cut" ofe The pj^siAgfer train [ Newmarket. ■**B'*6ft^t^e line,, ana"grfeai; alarm w»»8 felt a« a bollfeW l in^tbe tunnel wan inevitaWe At a( |)^iin%he)tii^nojiKe^dr4ei' of the passenger train saw the runaway enpotion hiatey. The guard told the passengers to hold on and lie down. f When the shoblf came $hh Jjassongers wete thrown 'il 5 tflf directions, but were rnofe. hutjc. The engine Of the passengee train was damii^d; tiiit tl^e ca'inage^ flid not, ißATjqjvjfc^-^n^j j!t^' escape , watf { moW miiaculoua l one. Coming up the steqp Hrnell ( incl|ne-had lessened y sne ( iftojnent^iji ;) of 'tne " run^t- pay. en'jiirißi'anil 1 «^inMed tn^jjqck oftne ' w^ttlu have occarreq a,t a,^jipij , Ih6 driver could noj; see, t^e u^pronca.' ing ehgine ; m tinie f io .fflo'w; wlieij there would ,hay<e ajtemolo accident to rucb'rcl.' ' ' ' ■ , ;