RAILWAY DISASTER
DRIVER MISSINGS* AND BELIEVED TO BE BURIED UNDER ENGINE PASSENGERS ESCAPE ’ The engine of a Christchurch-Grey-inout’Ji goods train ran into a washout quo and a half miles from Aratika at 4 o’clock yesterday morning and capsized over a ten-foot bank. The driver, Samuel Milton Horne, aged 44, was buried under the engine. The fireman, M, Creighton, suffered slight cuts and shock. Fiye passengers suffered shock and bruises. The tender, lying at right angles 1 i& the track, prevented a carriage from capsizing over the bank, ■ V '■
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Patea Mail, 24 November 1939, Page 2
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88RAILWAY DISASTER Patea Mail, 24 November 1939, Page 2
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