TRAINS COLLIDE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 9

TRAINS COLLIDE.

BAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BLENHEIM. • ■'•■ .;.■'■'■';■'(Bγ. JXLEOKArH—FBESSASSOCIATION.) ' . %:- i :^-';:-- : i-;.'y ':' .-Blenheim, Juno 14. - , A collision occurred at tho railway station this morning between a goods train arriving from Piotbn and a passenger train wai&ng to ■} be dispatched to'Seddon. .When the driver ofvtbeSeddon train :'eaw" that a collision, was : inovitaßle,: h'e mered. hia trtin sWlj off, thereby lessening the : forco of the impact. However, serionsdajn»ge, iraj done to both trains, the .carriages being ■'"badly smaseed. The front plate of this Picton engine was -itoyojn,. and,the..jruard over the coircstehor torhjpff.; /There,-were several passengers in tho;Soddon train, including three Indies, one . of whom—Mrs. 'Andrews, of Flaxbourne—was ' loverely: out about tho' face. 1. The other passcngbrs escaped with bruises and'shock.. v With, reference to the occurrence, Inspector: Ellison ..yesterday'.- received, a' telegram i from the' police ■aKßlenbeim stating that tbo 'Picton gcods' train had run into the Seddon passenger train at about 7.10 a.m. No persons, were killed or seriously injured) but Mrs. J.; : Andrews,, Mrs. Mcehan, and Miss O'Brien,- all of Awatero, and a' few others, shaken. , The lines were greasy from rain , , and the Picton train skidded, ; the brakes riot acting properly.