RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1902, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

SEVERAL PASSENGERS HURT. tßy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WEmCNGTOjST, this day. The* Railway Department asserts there is no foundation for a sensational statement published in the local press to the elfect that an excur- j sion train, derailed at Haicombe on i i'riday, contained 3000 people, sev- j eral of whom were badly bruised, ne- > cessitating medical aid being sent from Feilding. As a matter of fact, only 270 people were aboard the train at the time of the accident, which was greatly exaggerated. Two passengers received a few slight bruises. No medical aid was despatched from Feilding. The time-table was adhered to, arrangements working like clockwork. (By Te'sgrrapn.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The recent heavy rains are responsible lor a serious slip on the railway line at Paekakariki. In the absence of reliable news, caused by £he telephone wires being interrupted, the general manager of the Manawatu Railway Company decided not to despatch the mail train to NewPlymouth this morning. He was in^ formed later that the debris could he removed sufficiently to allow of ".lie transhipping of passengers, who are likely to suffer only a brief detention On their journey. It is not expected that the goods traffic will be resumed for a couple of days.