THE RAILWAY DISASTER.
FURTHER DETAILS. WOUNDKD PROGRESSING FAVOR ABLY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taihape, Last Night. Traffic north ia suspended; excepting the express footu ways. Passengers, ircr.ils, and luggage are transhipped- Intending passengers are advised to carry ■q? little luggage as possible. It is believed the Department will lay a -d-viatioii line round the huge mass of fallen earth.
Passengers tell most startling stories of hairbreadth escapes. If the mortuary- car next the engine had not acted as a buffer, the results would have proved much more serious. The coffin was pushed through the postal van and lay uninjured, while both cars were crashed in pieces. '
A woman and child were rescued through a broken w»idow, and a man Itnd to be extricated with an axe.
Derbridge (tlio engine-driver) and the fireman (Jamieson) were only a littlo bruised. Those in hospital appear to be progressing favorably. Gangs of men are working day and nijrht eutting a road through the slip, and there is a prospect of the line being clear by Monday night.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1918, Page 5
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172THE RAILWAY DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1918, Page 5
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