RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 6

RAILWAY ACCIDENT

TRAIN RUNS INTO WASHOUT LOCOMOTIVE CAPSIZED OVER BANK. ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. The engine of a Christchurch-Grey-mouth goods train ran into a washout cnc- and a half miles from Aratika, 19 miles from Greymouth, at four o’clock this morning, and capsized over a ten foot bank. The driver, Mr S. Horn, was pinned under the engine and killed. The fireman, Mr M. Creighton, suffered slight cuts and shock, and five passengers shock and bruises. The tender, lying at right angles to the track, prevented a carriage capsizing over the bank. Mr Horne, a married man aged 44. with two children, was transferred to Greymouth from Tnumarunui a year ago. The body of Mr Horne is partly visible. inside the cab. Death was instantaneous. A washout. 75 feet wide, was caused by heavy rain. The rails collapsed and the engine was thrown down the bank. Passengers in the carriage immediately following had a miraculous escape, the carriage coming to rest at an angle of 45 degrees, partly supported by a telegraph pole on the inner side of the track. On the other side there is a 30loot bank into the Arnold River. Traffic is suspended until 200 feet of new track have been built. The work probably will be completed tomorrow. Meantime road services are being used between Greymouth and Moana.