Attempt to Wreck a Train
[Per Press Association. ( I Dukfdin. This Day The express train waa derailed at St Leonard's. Fortunately, only one engine left the rails. The passengers reached town at 10.80. The .Palmerston South train passed over the same spot half an hour before, therefore there is little doubt it was a deliberate shifting of the points. The train happened to be a few minutes in advance af time, therefore the driver slowed down before reaching the town, which he approached at the slowest pace known for two years. The passengers speak in the highest terms of his coolness.
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Feilding Star, 13 June 1893, Page 2
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101Attempt to Wreck a Train Feilding Star, 13 June 1893, Page 2
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