RAIL WAY ACCIDENT.
*" FUETHEB pkRTICULARS. (BY ET.BfcfRtfc'fBiEGRXPH- COPY BIGHT.) ~"tEEtJ^K's TELKGBAMS.T / " Jan. 26./ The train which ran off the line near jßpotamgs-dra, onjhe spjiithern^ railway contained among the passengers a num^ bor,of bpokinaker^, all of whom escaped with slight; 'injiiries.'lNo particulars have y.et been wucetved of the easuaUies., The culvert wnicbJ collapsed was mty yards. wide and nine deep. . The carriages: were iprecipitate'd'iiito Hhe -gap^and jtairly dammed the ei^eek, and several persons* ; were .washed- do%n the,tßfcrerfis. Others were killed hy the force of the concussion, imiraculo^sc 1 6|capea| are' reported' to3tvve occurred. The Minister ot Kailways and leading officials^are now at the slceneol' the disaster." ' ; • .-,, i. ... ■ Later; j r . : Seven bodies haVe been recovered-from the Cootatmindra railway accident. GrawJ ford; railway 'em|)l6y^e'; Wilson, ditto; O'Dwyeri ririiil guard ; Campesley, | rail.way oifiicial ; a woman arid two children/ names unknown. Numbers/suffered more i or less serious injuries. ,;; ; " (1 . . -, ,'.:.;.. Latest. Several sufferers . by the railway accident'have bee^ removed. to Goulbnrn, ". while others, f emaih at ; Gqotajnuhdra. One injured 'nariied B^rghi' is. ; not exDected to rißbover. The. wreck of the « -tram pre^eSits' & terrible scene;' ' ' An^ in 1^ .quest was opened on the^bodies killed but has bTeeUiadiourried:. -v ;ji: >; /
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 27 January 1885, Page 3
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193RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 27 January 1885, Page 3
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