RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 271, 13 May 1912, Page 5

RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A STONE IN THE POINTS. By Telegraph —Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. A railway accident of a rather serious nature occurred at the Bluff last evening, when a passenger train from Invercargill collided with a goods train waiting on a siding about 400 yards from the Bluff railway station. The accident occurred through some person, as yet undiscovered, placing a stone in the points. The passenger train, which left town at 5.10 p.m., was a fully-laden one, and had it not been for the automatic application of the Westinghouse brake a serious disaster might have occurred. As it was, the train ran on to the siding and collided violently with a shunting engine, which was standing on the Tails, connected with a long line of trucks. The second to last passenger car, however, jumped the points, severing the air-brake connection, and this automatically stopped the train. The impact was sufficient to throw the fireman, Harry Baxter, violently from the cab of the passenger train on to the tender, and he received several nastly injuries, including a broken nose. He was also severely cut about the head. His condition to-night was, however, reported to be not serious. There will be an exhaustive enquiry into the circumstances of the Occident. ®