SENSATIONAL TRAIN ACCIDENT
MAIL TRAIN CRASHES INTO A • VEHICLE. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. By Telegraph.—Pres« Associatioa. Palmerston North, Last Night. A sensational train accident happened shortly before one o'clock to-day when the down Main Trunk express, coming into the Square at high speed, crashed into an express cart. The driver had a miraculous escape. He declares the engine never whistled till close to him, and he had no idea of its presence till he was in the centre of the rails and saw the onfushing train. He jumped and thus saved his life, for the next instant the engine struck the vehicle and carried it alon? on the cowcatcher into the Square for nearly'a hundred yards. The suddenness of the impact broke the express clean away from the horse, which escaned. like its driver, without a scratch. The train was travelling at a dangerous rate.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19100309.2.36
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 334, 9 March 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144SENSATIONAL TRAIN ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 334, 9 March 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in