TRAINS IN COLLISION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 10 April 1907, Page 2

TRAINS IN COLLISION.

AX EXPItKSS INVOLVKI). KLUiIiT DAMASK. Per Pies? ' % h. jciulion. (lore, April 0. Th-» Jamedin express collided :iI Wai pahi willi a train from Invereargill standing at Waipahi al noon, Xo very fcerious damage was done, but tlx- mail VKii wax smashed, anil the engine ulmj damaged a little, but uut sulUesently to disable it. Xo one was bun. The express >s slid )>v passengers to have over run ihe signal, and (he brakes, when applied, did not hold it sudieientlv to stop the train before striking the standi'!?: train. The passengers were not. greatly inconvenienced, anil the mailman was not hurt. Inverenrgill, April tf. In (•(•■nneelion wilb the collision l.ftwocn the southgoimr express an I i slow iraiti from Invereargill at Waipahi, the 1 »:«» t vaHie manager slates that Hgeneril practice is to signal the ineo./ 1 ing esj ress if the liti" is eh-ar, as tlr* two In i'iv cross at that station. I'll ■ slow train is timed to arrive at. Win pahi hvdve minutes before the oxpre,™, ami has usually concluded its business at the platform, and gone on to « side line before the express is signalled. Should the train fail to keep schedule time, the siatioumaster has power to deal with the tratlie as lie thinks best. The tflieer in charge of the mail van says tin- lirst intimation he had of the collision was a terrific bump which sent him flying from one end of the van to I the other, but he escaped injury. f iho van jumped the liacs on one Hide, and ! when the train stopped was only a few feet away from a steep embankment, ut 1 the loot of which was the Waipahi 1 streaQ. The mails were removed to a carriage intact.