NARROW ESCAPE.
ACCIDENT TO LOCOMOTIVE. Per Press Association. WESTPORT, March 1. In connection _ with tho accident at the Stockton mine yesterday it is reported that the driver of the locomotive Shearer when he found that the brake would not work and that the locomotive was gathering speed jumped clear. This induced 12 others to do likewise and all were more or less severely injured. The five men taken to hospital are reported to bo progressing favourably this morning. An inquiry is being held to-day by tho Inspector of Mines and the Public Works Department. But for the promptness of Cook, tho second man in the locomotive, in applying the emergency brake all on board would have been killed. When the emergency brake was applied the locomotive left the lines. The company is reticent until the inquiry is completed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 79, 2 March 1929, Page 11
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138NARROW ESCAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 79, 2 March 1929, Page 11
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