CRASH INTO SEA
FALL OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE BADLY DAMAGED OCCUPANTS JUMP CLEAR (From Our Special Reporter) OAMARU, June 15. When a locomotive crashed over the foreshore just past the Oamaru railway engine sheds yesterday afternoon, the prompt action of the driver and fireman in jumping clear enabled them to escape without injury. The locomotive was pushing a rake of trucks laden with spoil for depositing along the foreshore and, when it was just past the engine sheds, the fireman. Mr Fred Healey, felt the wheels lift. Fortunately the driver, Mr Walter Woodall, was on the top side, and Mr Healey grabbed him by the legs and pulled him to safety, just as the engine and one of the trucks crashed down the bank on to the rocks below, a distance of some 23ft. The driver apparently did not even feel the engine toppling. A short time before the accident occurred the line had been shifted about two feet towards the shore side, and the collapse of this section of the foreshore came with very little warning. Judged by the apparent damage caused by the fall and the battering which the engine has received from the sea and big boulders,, it would seem that the locomotive is too badly damaged to be of further use, except for breaking up.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23218, 16 June 1937, Page 10
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218CRASH INTO SEA Otago Daily Times, Issue 23218, 16 June 1937, Page 10
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