PLUNGE INTO RIVER
MADE BY GOODS TRAIN RAILS JUMPED ON BRIDGE. DRIVER .SUFFERS HEAD INJURIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. A goods train, which left Wanganui at 1.15 today for Marton, jumped the rails on the Wangaehu Bridge and the engine, eleven trucks and the guard’s van were hurled into the river.. The driver, Mr J. McLachlan, of Wanganui, suffered head injuries. Dr. R. A. Church, of Marton, happened to be passing at the time and attended the injured man in the bed of the river in the engine. The fireman escaped injury. The doctor was apparently lowered over, the bridge by ropes and later the driver, with scalp wounds, was hauled on to the bridge and taken to the Wanganui Hospital. The engine landed on a sandbank, which prevented it tipping over. In the stream, the water rose nearly half-way up the boiler.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 4
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145PLUNGE INTO RIVER Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 4
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