"FORCED OFF LINE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 9

"FORCED OFF LINE."

SLIP STRIKES LOCOMOTIVE? NEW VERSION OF MISHAP. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. A. B. Wallace, a Chriatcliurch commercial traveller, who was in the first carriage, said he considered the nature of the accident saved them from more serious consequences. The engine driver told him the slip came down on the side of the locomotive, forcing it off the line, so that the carriages were able to move forward until stopped by the p'.led-up earth. "I wjs dozing in my ?eat when the bvakes iVtre put on hard," lu said. "Before I h«-6 time to reaiu;* what had happened the carriage started to jolt and rock aoout, and then the side of the carriage against, which 1 v-as- sitting went up into the air and right over the top of us. My overcoat w.is hanging on a 'look bt-'-ide me, at:..l I found it on the other s"de of the line. ! My suitcase, which wis -n the was also thrown over there." Mr. Wu'laca suffered a cut : on the eyebrow and nail both liU shins j grazed. He joined with other passengers j in commending the promijpt action of the 'driver and fireman. j The condition of Mr. IA. t. Bush is reported to-day to be sifii «erion#; The other two passengers ill hospital are making satisfactory process.