RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Through Careless Officials.
Hemvy Loss Of Rolling Stook.
A Wonderful Escape.
P*es,s Association—Copyright. Received September 28, 0.57 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. A serious railway smash has occurred at Lawson, on the Blue Mountains. Owing to the breaking of a drawbar of a passenger carriage attached to. a stocls train on a steep grade the driver left two passenger carnages and a brake van standing on the rails and went on to the next station with the stock portion. Meanwhile the ordinary passenger train was detained at Went worth Palls awaiting the arrival of the stock train. A porter, unaware that the portion had been left on the line, sent the passenger train ahead. • It crashed into the two oarriages and a brake van standing on the line and smashed them into matchwood. " The colliding engine was badly damaged, and with four carriages and a brake van left the rails, " None of the passengers were seriously injured; one received a bruised leg. A drover sleeping in the carriage belonging to the stock train had a miraculously escape. After the collision he was taken out of the debris uninjured, excepting for a slight gash in the oheek'. The damage to. the rqlling stock is very heayy. .". '
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7826, 28 September 1903, Page 2
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206RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7826, 28 September 1903, Page 2
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