THE RUNAWAY TRAIN.
FATAL ACCIDENT AVERTED.
AN INQUIRY INSTITUTED. WESTPORT, March 1.
In connection with the accident at the Stockton mine yesterday, it is reported that the driver of the locomotive, 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 in hospital were reported to be progressing favourably this morning. An inquiry is being held to-day by the inspector of mines and the Public Works Department. Only for the promptness of Cook, the second man on 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 in quiry is completed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 66
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138THE RUNAWAY TRAIN. Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 66
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