RUNAWAY TRUCK.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 8

RUNAWAY TRUCK.

<('-'"-'■ /: - ;- '■/■:'/ This '■?;':■' etone ; broke away;in tho new/,tunnel '.cii~ih4- ;'■; pointsi.at tlie'junction mtfrtiie' main Jiiie/.and. , :'came. down ■towards Kensington• at' a great pace.', Tho runaway '.-signal .'Avas ;giyen ,{rom :'. tho tables all; along,;tho/ line;:.and; the' Ken crbssings : were-Uent' "rlclear.^for'.the^flying.; the' ;■.': Bignalmen-nyerojin l ; time:, tojlstpp , :!.-^^tho , 'train ;'^wnich''leaves:-for.;Jl6'sgieltat'eleven,, elso'there '■'-. ■■'; mustVh'ave-been a serious sma'sK.- .:As' it was-;;r-.tbojlino 7 was -clear;:::a'nd;:a':xloud: ; of'^dust , ;;;; .'signalled ■to the guards; and others near the Vstation, .what., .had , •happened. Guard R. : : Stephen /was"'along;,by ■ tne: oyerbridge ' when. ; : the ■ trucks :.rn"slied ,',past 'tih&J. signal-bos, at Si twenty miles, an hour. '.-Hoiperformecl a very' .-risky and most!plucky'" aciionA-A.yonag';. .-' active', inan,"h'e" maljihg a ; .;: oarious'.'foothold; -between .■ the' trucks,, and, :. hanging on with one hand, forced the brakes -;': 'down and pulled up" the runaways very close : /: to -the"guard's van ;of _the'. train, '.' .which■:had,;arrived.,'a or;'tivi'before; /;;■■ Had-the. trucks gtitiaway' a feiir , minutes be-- :," f oro.;\(when tho ".Clinton train : - ; ;was: corning :■}.': through /..'O«versbam)'' Or', a' ''tninutelJator. : :■:: tho.Mosgiel'traiii)'•;d'-/;serious^acoideni"i ; might' ' : /.bavo ; dccurredi-'i^; ;: Vr.s:^. n :;-''' f ■ •'■■-'