FIRES FROM ENGINE SPARKS.
On Saturday last (says the “Lyttelton Times all along the railway line there were small tussock fires’ (caused by sparks from the engine) which the nor’wester thetfblowing,helped’tokeep alive. lAt Drpmore the fire burned for some itime, and extended for a good distance, Ib'iit did no real harm. Another fire, ifrom the same cause occurred between! ;the' Ashburton bridge and Tinwald, but was put out by the people on the road, Rafter about half, an acre; of the dry vegetation had been burnt. A fire occurred up at the terminus of the Mount Somers railway on Saturday evening last, by which two or three railway trucks were reduced to several pairs of ■wheels, and the iron framework of the iwaggons. How the waggons caught fire is not very clearly known, but it is supposed that a spark of Native coal from the engina had started it. The fire was discovered by the only employee on. the’ground, who, unaided, was not equal to the: task of saving the trucks, one of which had a valuable load of timber on it for two of the County Council’s contractors, for flumihg. pur-, poses.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2740, 4 January 1882, Page 2
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