THE RAILWAY COLLISION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10657, 28 May 1913, Page 8

THE RAILWAY COLLISION.

Per Press Association. Anokland, May 28. There were only seventy passengers on the trains in collision. , Twenty in the first carriage Qa the Henderson train were, with one >'exception, severely cut and bruised. The second and third carriages which were telescoped had only two passengers. One, named Stone, was extricated from the wreckage of the third oarriage >*ith difficulty. The second passenger, Farrell, had a marvellous escape. The third carriage was crumpled up into a space of four feet, ifrs side burerting out and it went over the side of the bridge and into the water 50 fees below. The bridge on which the trains collided is 40 feet long. One train had been taking iu water a - New Lynn and was backing on a side track to let the other (a passenger) train pass. When the latter appeared to be coming down the- hill round the curve both euginedrivers jambed on the brakes, but it was impossible to avert a serious end-on collision. The two 45-ton engines met with terrific impact and every one of the eight oars in the passenger train bears evidence of the force of the collision. There was imrnediat6ls a scene of wild excitement. Half-a-dozen men and women were carried out unconscious. One doctor in the vicinity was promptly in attendance, and another was saou on the scene. As one indication of the force of j the impact two sleeDers on the bridge | weie out through and the railway line was badly dented.