RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3035, 15 May 1912, Page 34

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

COLLISION AT THE BLUFF. INVEBCABGILL, May 12.

A railway accident of a rather serious nature occurred at the Bluff last evening, when a passenger train from Invercargill collided with a goods train waiting on a siding about 400 yards from the Bluff railway station. The accident occurred through some person, as yet undiscovered, placing a stone in the points. The passenger train, which left Invercargill at 5.10 p.m., was a fully-laden one, and had it not been for the" automatic application of the Westinghouee brake a serious disaster may have occurred. As it was the train ran on to the siding a.nd collided violently with a shunting engine which was standing on the rails, connected with a long line of tracks. The second to last passenger car, however, jumped the points, severing the air-brake connection, and this automatically stopped the train. The impact was sufficient to throw Fireman Harry Baxter violently from the cah of the passenger train engine on to the tender, and he received several nasty injuries, including a broken nose and a severely cut head. His condition toijigjht was, however, reported its not being very serious. There will be an exhaustive inquiry into the circumstances of the accident.