A SENSATIONAL SCENE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 761, 9 March 1910, Page 7

A SENSATIONAL SCENE.

locomotive and express. (By TelegrabU.—Special tobrTesjmnaont;) . Palmerstoli, March 8. A miraculous escape from a very serious accitiiSitt happened at llo'D to-day as the Auckland ex'ptess train Was crossing the SqUait: It appears that a uiah named Charles Felix was. driving a horse aiid expfess afcrdss the lifte at tile past bffidg crossing, ..but, not .hearing the train whistle, did , n&t not ce it alipfb'acliing, and the. engine struck th 6 express With feal'ftll fbfec. Tile train was travailing Very fast at the time, and the hßi& of the impact cdnld .be heard all 6,ver the Sqilart. Tllfc ohgffte stftidk tile express almost in the centW. ftiads matchwood of it. Tho driver jumped clear, aiid the hofsß escaped without a scratch, thouk'h it .was thrown dbwli by the.force pf the collision. There Were a huuibbr of, cbiii-s in, the oipfessj > itrid these wire sm'asued into siuall pieces. Tlie hind wheels of the expfess, or pieces of them, .were carried right to tho rther side of the Square. The driver of the exjirjjss vehicle asserts \ that the whistle of the engine did not blow till it was ft;lit on .top of him, when he had no chalice of getting clear. The horse, vehicle, and cbntf-uts belong to Mr. J Kawiiiis, of the AUiitc House Luncheon Kobhls.