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MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF 400 PEOPLE. Ikkuteh's telegram.] (Received June 22nd. 12.15 p.m.) Sydney, Wednesday. A train containing 400 excursionist.'; for Hawkesbury met with an accident at Peaks River yesterday. Shortly after leaving that place the WestinghouseHoruby break failed. The train was too heavy for the light engine, and attained a velocity nf seventy miles an hour down a steep 'decline. The guard applied # the breaks, but without avail, and a pointsman, seeing the danger of tho whole train running into the sea, turned it on to a siding, where it dashed into some trucks. The two carriages nearest tho engine fell over backwards into the sea. Wilson, the driver, Rennie, engineer, Henry Hawkins, clerk, and two girls, whose names are unknown, were killed, and fully forty people injured.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2333, 23 June 1887, Page 2
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130THE LATEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2333, 23 June 1887, Page 2
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