ENGINE PLUNGES INTO HOLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11

ENGINE PLUNGES INTO HOLE

CAPF.TOVVN, Feb. &

A railway accident occurred at fmtali involving the death of %n online driver and n fireman, and injury t© the second Jiwman. A goods train with a van attached left Vintali station driven by Harry do Beer, with two firemen, W. J. Wndsworth and O. Gariett, and a guard and woman passenger, Mrs. Bolus, a ganger's wife, in the van. The engine reached a bank about three miles from the station, at which, point a large drain pipe passes under the track. The force ©t ttoe water doting the reeeni .storms had undermined the bank, and the track gave way under the weight of the engine, whieh tore a gap in the permanent way about 30ft across and Mr deep. The engine plunged into the hole and overturned, pinning the driving crew underneath. The guard and passenger ran to the hole in which the engine 'was lying and climbed down, fhev we're jnst m time to rescue Fireman Garlett sy dragging him. out from under the engine badly scalded. Nothing eoahl be done for Be Beer and Wadsworth, who lay beneath the engine crushed to death.