ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND LINE.
(press association- telegram.) GREVMOUTH. April 26. Tho cypres, train from Otira convex.»ff passengers and mails, from C-instHwirch met with an accident on Saturday evening. Shortly after leavIn '-. Otira tlie train ran into a cow, which threw .he enaine nn<l the first carriage off the line. The. engine pulled up the rails and sk>eper_°for some distance, and then toppled over. Fortunately tho passengers escaped injury, .nlth.-HC-. Dhe.v received a shaking. A special train was sent- from town, and brought on tlie passengers who arrived here after midnjeht. A maintenance gang 'was empfbved all to-daj- effecting repairs.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 5
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