TRASH ACCIDENT AT BLUFF

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10634, 13 May 1912, Page 5

TRASH ACCIDENT AT BLUFF

COODg TRAINS COLLIDE. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. Last Night. . (A railwaiy accident of a., rather serious maibune- occurred at the Bluff last evening, when a passenger train from Jiiveicarigli'll collidied with a goods train, which was waitinp - on a siding «!bou't 400 yards from the Bluff railway staition. The accident occurred through some person, as yet undiscovered!, placing a •stcne im the points. The passenger train which left town at 5.10 a.nu was a. fully laden one, and had it not been Ifcir the aiutomaltict application of the ''Wesltinghou.se brake, serious 'disaster imja.y have occurred. As it was the train ran on to the siding, and collided vs.o-le.iiit.ly with a shunting engine. wlhMi was standing on 'the rails, and conducted with a long line of tracks. Thei second fo laist passenger car, however., jumped the points, severing the air-hrake connection, and this antomatic:*7.v.stooped the train. The impact wa's 'snffiricnt to throw the fireman, Harry Baxter, violently from the cab elf the passenger tra.tn engine on to the iten'cler, and' lie .received several nasty injuries, including a broken, nose, and a severely out head. His condition to-night was, ..however, reported not ito be very .serious. There will he aft 1 exhaustive 'enquiry into the circumstances of the accident.