FORTY-THREE TRUCKS DERAILED.
SIGXALSMAX BAFLY HURT. Ji
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Monday. ! A sheep train coming from Waira< rapa met with a mishap between Kaitoke and Mungaroa. Forty-three trucks, full of sheep, were derailed, and went over a bank. The engine, three trucks, and the guard's van, remained on the rails. Hicks, the signalman at Mungaroa r is missing, and is believed to be under a pile of trucks. A portion of the line was torn up. How thfi accident happened is not I yet i;i,v., .;.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 10 April 1900, Page 5
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