A BITTERLY COLD NIGHT.

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 5

A BITTERLY COLD NIGHT .

( ,' .; .HAMILTON, May/ 27.---v The night was bitterly cold and the majority of the passenger were asileep when the accident occurred. :. Soon the railway saiding was alive .with sleepy-eyed passengers groping abo-ut in, the,. dark. '..',..- --; Anxious , enquires were made on every hand, "and above! the general clamour could be heard the groans '- of injur:ed persons. There was- then a general rush -.to the front of -the train jo render. whatever assistance possible. ; The. work* bi. removing... the engine 3id not take. very, long, a ;. message haying been sent meantinieio Tuakau, fourteen' miles away^ this being the nearest place at . whicJh^ medical assistance"was. obtainable. Dr. Cheeseinan drove to the scene as quickly as' possible. i 'Grimstbne and Swimsbn .have both, been operated 'on.' / The. farmer's con is very graved He is suffering froln a broken pelvis and [.. cither inter-, nal "'injuries". He is a married man with '] a .wife and^ five", children > '..'"He resides; laf Seatown, Wellington. r Swinson. who has a fractured thigh, is' prbgressing weR. '„'." '. ' \ ' ''':]