A SNAKE STORY.
Bemud Mat/23,11,15 a.m. Bmsiuxk, May 23. A Railway employee named fiwing was shunting a heavily laded mixed train at Alphastation to a I low special to cross, when a large brown snake crawled out of the point's box, over his hands and shoulders, down his back, and then escaped. Kwing pliickily held on to the lever, and allowed the (rain to cross safely.
When questioned afterwards, he said that if he had let the lever go the train would have been wrecked, and probably many lives lost. It was to him simply a case of many lives or one; as it happened his own safety depended upon his keeping perfectly cool and quiet.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5033, 23 May 1895, Page 2
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116A SNAKE STORY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5033, 23 May 1895, Page 2
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