TELESCOPE AVOIDED
By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WANGANUI, This Day.
A passenger, Mr. Mark McMillan, of Wellington, said he was in the carriage next to the engine and except for a cut on the back of the hand he was uninjured. He said that the train had been travelling at a good speed along the straight near the Ratana station, and later, when the engine, left the rails at a bend, the passengers in the carriage were pitched and bumped about in an alarming manner.
Had the remainder of the carriages not gone forward, he said, they would have been telescoped, and the loss of life would have been greater. It was pitch dark after the accident and the screams of the passengers, together with the loud hissing of steam, were, unnerving. , No one seemed to know what would happen next. Some feared that the carriages would, take fire before the imprisoned passengers could be rescued, but fortunately that did not occur*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 72, 26 March 1938, Page 11
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