REMARKABLE TRAIN ACCIDENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2890, 15 December 1898, Page 3

REMARKABLE TRAIN ACCIDENT.

■• ♦ One of the most remarkable railway accidents on record is reported in Home papers of Ist November, the unusual feature being that the whole of a fast train ran off the line and capsized, yet nothing was broken except the engine and only one person was seriously hurt. The London mail train left Falmouth at 5.20 p.m, with mail van and 30 passengers and seven minutes later at Penrym the entire train, composed of an engine, a mail-coach, and three passenger carriages, left the rails on an embankment, the engine rolled down and turned completely upside dowu, whilst all the carriages turned over on their sides The line there is fairly straight but has a reputation for roughness. The driver had a narrow escape. He was thrown off a considerable distance when the engine rolled over, and was rather badly scalded by the escaping steam. The fireman got off with a few bruises. The passengers had miraculous escapes, for only in two cases were there any injuries beyond a cut or a bruise. It is remarkable that an entire train could have left the rails and been overturned upon a steep embankment and that so little personal injury and damage to rolling stock should have been sustained. {n IJJ97 there were 6000 applications for (patents in connection with the construction of bicycles, lodged in the English patent office. In spite of these 6000 inventions the bicycle of 1898 differs very little from that of 1896. A contemporary tells this story of A. E. Trott, the Australian, who is playing in England. When he was touring with the M.G.O. recently a local professional expressed the opinion that Trott was one of the worst bowlers that ever earned a reputation. Presently (the local professional had to go in to face the Australian | but as he came up to the wicket he was handed a small niece of paper folded, and asked not to read it till after his innings. His curiosity was not long unsatisfied. The first ball hit him in the body, the second he hit. at with vigour, but missed, the third bowled him clean. When in the privacy of the pavilion he read the slip of paper and on it were these words :— " Trott wins five pounds if he hits, you with the first ball, makea you miss the second, and bowls you in the first over. Is he a good bowler ?