A Dastardly Heed.
; It "is horrible (says the European Mait) to think that we have among jus wretches-^-presumably other th:m jdynatnitards — who can coolly oon> jtemplate, a wholesale sacrifice of human. life. The other day; the most horrible, attempt was.in.ade to wreck the: Dover express on . the London, Chatham, and.. Dover Railway.. ; It appears that when wearing Rochester Bridge Station the driver, on rounding a curve on the line, saw, to his constei nation, jtliat a length of railway metal had been fastened across the line upon which his train was travelling, lie wan too near to pull 'up, and so he increased the speed, ; with, the object of cutting thfpugh the. obstacle.' This; he did and, thanks to his i prpsence of mind, wo have m all human probability been saved the painofreoording one of the i-most fearful railway accidents of modern tijnes ; for, undoubtedly, had the train J left the metals rt would have been precipitated* with its living jfrci^hr, into the' .River Medway, which Hows beneath.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2
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169A Dastardly Heed. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2
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