BEING CLEARED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 222, 31 August 1936, Page 5

BEING CLEARED

PARAPARAUMU SLIP DESCRIPTION OF CRASH ~ '.- - .' \ *-"" "Carriage Started To Jolt And Rock About." ONE MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. Press Association —HopyriffTit. Wellington. To-day. The Napier Express to-day is using the Waiar-arapa line, but all other trains normally running on Main Trunk will tranship passengers by a rai'way bus acicss the damaged stretch. Gangs of workim ■'. are makin ood progress in clearing the slip, but at noon to-day Ihe Railways Department was unable to say d liuitely when the line will be in full use again. After the line is cleared a spur line v ill probably be consiructed to carry the capsize] locomotive back on to tiu main track. ~,' v ■ Mr A. B. W?.iiace, a commercial traveller, of C'h'ristchurch, wh v;,,s in t firct cs-'Tlage, said he considered the nat-j:? of the accident saved them from mo:"2 serious "icnsequeneas. The enqi.io driver toid him that the slip came clown on + he side of the locomotive, forcing ir off the line so that the carriages were able to i -nve forward unfjil they were stopped by piled-up earth. "I was dozing in my scat when the brakes were put on hard,' said Mr Wallace. "Before I had time to realise what had happened, the carriage started to jolt and rock about. Then the side of the carriage against which I was sitting, went up into the air right oyer the top of us. My overcoat was hanging on a hook beside me and I found it on the- other 1 side, of the line. My suitcase, which; was on a rack, was also thrown over, there." Mr Wallace received a cut on the eyebrow and had both of his shins grazed . He joined with the other passengers in . cpnMn.en.ding the prompt action of, the driver and the fireman. . . . . The condition .of .Mr. A. P. Eush. sen., one ; of the injured 'passengers; was reported to-day fo be still serious. The other two in hospital, Messrs : 'C."*J. Rogers and" V. Riley, are making satisfactory progress.