RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 18 June 1902, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

» GOODS TK4IH PERAILED NIAR IjU»EDIN. P» PKBBS AgSOOIAHOW. Dunedin, June 17. A serious riiUay accident hnpp<wfd at Sawyer's Biy ■ atiou, where the main n>rth lite juoetioLg with tinPort Ghaltn r.H lin<\ A goods train from Oamaru, due in Dunedin at 3.15 a,iu., h.d almost descended the incline, and the driver was casing the brik 8 when a cow was no'iced on the )in». The engit e struck the animal, which was etiriod a'ong for ab ui 20 yards, when the engine wag ti town off the hue. It ciaslied over t'a > slei pers in a direct line for a hut whom a radw.y porter was s<andiug i-pel -boun '. The ei.gire w*nt through a shutting line of rails, and this ciusrd it to swerv.i to the right again on meeting >he main lin». Tuelo'ep'rtm un ed >diax Htioc platform and crashed into tbe ladis'l wai'ing-room, when thi boil-r b detached from the bigi". Thi dri>>r (HYed iiymoßs) and fir. mui (J, Drip per), who had stuck to tho r poHt', crawled out of the wreck ge qui e uuhurt. B ■hind th i engine wee two trii' ki of sht ep, tv. o t rucks of p ta o s,' andsomnngr cultu nl itupUmen g Toe sheep trucks were sin shed o pieces' aud piled updii tup of the ender, the' she p t-.rr bly roanjkd. The pota o trucks were p 1. d up on 'op of the debris ing through a tone i and fatting in o tha harrour. Some 60 cr 70 slunp' were kilUd or maimed, and a numbnrl of others got awny A br akdo.vo train with a crane wa» *ent dowo from I and by streiuous work pie i ventud any iccouvunienco beiiitf cauK'.d, the express train for (Jhristchurch g-t-, tiog through 40 minuses la'e. j