RAILWAY MISHAP.
TRUCK ON FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gore, Last Night. A somewhat exciting incident was witnessed in the Gore railway yard yesterday. When.shunting, arn engine was seen racing at tremendous speed for the water tank, one of the attached trucks being on fire. It transpired that the truck contained cases of petrol, one of which was evidently leaking. A spark from the engine set the truck afire. At the water tank water was applied to th,» truck, with ths effect only of spreading the flames. Ultimately it was extinguished with shovels, gravel and sand, and practically no damage, but if the other trucks had caught fire there was a possibility of a dangerous explosion.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19111211.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
115RAILWAY MISHAP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, 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