TELEGRAM FROM GREYTOWN.
Our Greytown correspondent telegraphed at 5 p.m. yesterday, as follows : — " About 36 miles on the line from Wellington is the scene of the disaster. It is about three-qharters of a mile down the incline, and below the second tunnel some 150 yards, at a place m the line known as Siberia, a point so called by tha navvies when constituting the line. On the left hand side of the line coming out of town, at this point is a gulch — like formation m hill down which a c,reek descends. The train le?t at the ordinary time, carrying tfbout 25 pnssengovs, somo 13 from Greytown, five from Featherston, and the remainder pickeu up through the district Two composite carriag4s *nd a passenger van were m front of the engine, and two covered goods vans loaded, and a brake van behind it. The train arriving at this point was met by a sudd-sn gust of wind, which blew the carriages and break van off the road over the embankment at nearly right angles, with the line. The front carriage tuened right over and of it nothing is left but the becH.—N'eto Zealand Times.
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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 15 September 1880, Page 3
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