TERUIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 801, 15 December 1881, Page 3

TERUIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

The French papers, publish an count, derived from a gentleman lins just arriv d from Mexico, of terrible railway accident which was jounced by a telegram a short time The accident occurred at a spot M«-x : cf) wl.cre line, after a steep cresses a deep ravine. The train, co' sistnd of two e;irs ladea with ]p:in , and c.iriages containing 300 iliers and fifty passengers, and was pr<H vded with an engine fore and reached the bridge across the ravine, ibe drivi r of ti:e aft engine suddenly served that the carriages ing one after another beyond it. immediately tightened the brake vith a French engineer who was vviiH i, jumped off. They now heard ■ •ine in the direction of the ravine,* b ,a ■ r,e to the conclusion that thgl an H u ■ had been cut by brigands. Sooi.l i ,r they remarked an intense light! : o«r from the ravine. The firing! i , , d. It was now nig'.t. They l had stor- ■ ? . . \scr and saw, to their horror, ventured , , , ~ , . Ae wreck of the train was in that the < , ~ n le bridge had given way names. , , ° „ , , weiglit of the first engine, under t} * , , , . " • ; }. dragged the whole train after -, „. barrels containing the p«-tro- , .been broken in and only one persons dreadfully burnt, had d from the fire. The shooting escaf . r , been produced by the explosion of ne unfortunate soldiers' cartridges. The one or two persons who had crept- „ a\vay fr<>m the fire died within an hour after the French engineer arrived at the scene.