WELLINGTON.
Tuesday.
Last evening tho engine house of the patent slip was nearly demolished by a singular accident. The s.s. Stella, which has been on the slip for repairs, was being lowered into tho water; wlicn halfway down a tremendous crash was heard, and large pieces of the galvanised roof, followed by clouds of steam and smoke, were seen high in the air. The engineer's account is, he was standing between the two engines, and was about shutting off steam, when, without any warning, an immense fly-wheel, seventeen feet in diameter, five tons weight, which was revolving witli great rapidly, without any warning burst into fragmentsSome of the pieces, half a ton in weight, were driven between two and three hundred feet from the building, going through the roof ond smashing tho brick walls. Nothing was left of the wheel but the centre and stumps of arms. All inside the engine bouse is a complete wreck. Tho escape of the engineer it considered miraculous, for beyond being knocked down and sustaining a icw cuts and bruises, he was uninjured.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2778, 9 January 1878, Page 2
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179WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2778, 9 January 1878, Page 2
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