RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1904, 14 April 1888, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

(per press association.)

INVERCARGILL, April 14.

A railway accident on the Kingston line on Wednesday night was more alarming than at first supposed. About two miles above Athol there are bridges iv close proximity with cuttings between. While the north train was passing through after dark the engine ran into a bullock which was carried on the - cowcatcher till a bridge was nearly crossed. The carcase then dropped ofl, and getting under the leading wheels disabled the engine. Fortunately, the locomotive did not diverge much from the track till clear of tbe bridge, otherwise there would have been a disastrous smash. The engine ran down a side embankment over ten feet high, and lay there with the wheels up. Three wagons also left the metals, but, the couplings having parted, the rear part of the train with passenger carriages kept the road. Cockraft, the driver, and Mathead, the fireman, had a wdnderful escape from the ponderous machine as it rolled over. The trucks having been got out of the way and the line repaired, the train proceeded with another engine after six hours detention. The line is not fenced.

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We clip the following important testi* monial from the " Illawarra ' Mercury" (N.S.W.), on the 30th March. It needs nc comment : — " Mr. John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by <V using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. He says seeing the said Extract advertised in the "Illawarra Mercury," his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr. Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. * He states that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract, and on the 19th, the use of that medicine continued to afford him relief, to which h< had been a stranger for four years. • Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the " Mercury.",.. We have much pleasure in complying with Mr. Loveday's request, whose word cannot be doubted, and who can have no object in view other than a pure deair* to benefit suffering humanity."— Advt.