RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association,}
Ddnbdin, Monday. The special train that brought the 'Frisco mail, when on the return With empty trucks for Oamsru, was derailed at Pelishet Bay through running into a siding whore there stood some fifteen trucks loaded with coal. The morning was intensely datk, and rain was falling. The first intimation the eneine-driver recoived that the line was not clesr, Was tho force of the concussion. The two foremosttrucks were smashed to pieces, The buffer of the ongino also sustained severe damage, and the cow catoher and front wheels wero wrecked, while the engine itself was lifted off tho line. The affair seems the result of a pure accident.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4448, 19 June 1893, Page 2
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113RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4448, 19 June 1893, Page 2
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