GOODS TRAIN DERAILED
AT PAREORA.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
TIM ABU, April 16.
As a result of a wagon jumping the line the express goods train Iroin Dunedin to Christchurch came to griel at Parcora in the early hours this morning. thirteen wagons being strewn about the station yard in a mass of wreckage. One wagon was smashed to matchwood. The guard, who was riding in the rear van, jumped clear as the van overturned, and (‘.scaped unhurt. with the exception of a few minor abrasions. All the others escap-
ed uninjured. The accident caused no interruption of traffic, trains passing the wreck by
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1929, Page 5
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