MAIN TRUNK SMASH.
INQUEST ON VICTIMS. ENGINE DRIVER'S EVIDENCE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 11. At the inquest on the victims of the Main Trunk railway disaster this morning, Joseph Hill, engine driver of the goods train, stated that when he passed the porter sitting on the lever he saw no light ahead. His engine and eight waggons had'gone on the siding, but fortv-one vehicles were still on the main line "when he saw the head lights of the express just beyond the station building. He gave the danger signal but the crash came a few seconds later. He walked to the signal lever, which he found at "danger," and he inspected the signal itself, which showed a full green light, meaning "All clear."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 8
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123MAIN TRUNK SMASH. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 8
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