ACCIDENT TO THE SATURDAY NIGHT TRAIN FROM THE WAIRARAPA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 3 July 1882, Page 2

ACCIDENT TO THE SATURDAY NIGHT TRAIN FROM THE WAIRARAPA.

.■■■ • (From the New Zealand Times.) ( The train which was due in Wellington akl 6.55 p.m.- on Sntiuday was fifty minutc/i late, owing to a mishap wliicl' inight linijrf re .lilted in a teii'ib'e calamiiy. Knitokb, m\ abo;it two ra'lei nor.rur wHH jinj'ton,ilieuwnt-uddonly enmotor,siofflH and'.here was ,',ieat constcniiilion ai to thoHl c i; e. 'i'o the. mazement of ail, it w.-s <lis-H| covered th.' 1 J two timber trucks 'had i-jiwH ''VOL'iiheemknkmeut, the irst wj 'ioiiv|H wps : zed rnt" the tivz-'iar -?.ut:i-cl H iiva'h'svcc'ioiis ■;■. the ne.ti t.nek hungside-H :m'f> by- t'o u'uplmgs, whilo.-lvo "HictHj t, : t>cU : .w.e thrown off the -line.- T)u acci|H dent occi-7.odin exactly the '.me sol -wi'e:e siiviv ■'. similar ojeiiivoacei hippmed ■ ■ a few rronilis r.go, and >i, i-s on fovu'Ov- occa- m s'ons,fth.'buicdionsL-vrj)cuvei i ill.:'"no. •Tie iiTcks five avaiages cVnt nt f.om , s j K>;-,rae; a''d weve abouv the ceniveof tlie tvO',, >o t'.:at when they left the .'ine, the foio ftnd fi".'iev eoda of the trw.irb?camo -deached, T-ie guard (Mr Turner) mill great iv.'isnrce p' iDJ'iil,-anct.to whom ovo;y credit \i d'O, pvoinpily put down t\)f brakes, t : ie ( 'jijy. t''ii -i'./U o l'riiuei' Httep incli'ie, and g. .".drally b'i..'siag : it,to aßtrndstillf whenitwasngain coiipled'to t'ie engine and thu •'jocroey reburned. _FbrLiinaLely lib one' wa-, injured, .snil Mono of-'the paisengerc irjige l ; si'ffered. "Duviijj yesterday a gang of men wjre dc■Bpaiched to- the. scene, r-nd recovered t!;t tiiicks.i'nd timber,' which were apparent 1 )' little the worse for the capsize. .' by special train yesleri(l?.y to clear away tho debris and repin- any the line, We learn that from the inspection made in dayli-cht therj h no loubt that a very serious, tlis-otn* (ins beenaveice'dthoiigh'the i'pi'iu' ; !aio.bi-o,".kiiig of the couplings connecting the timber t.ncks with the cars, Where tbsu'cidcufc happened the grade is abon'-1 in 'A'i, on a h<gn embankment, and it is a matter of congvatulation that (here is nothing more serious in record than e factg' above stated.