ATTEMPT AT TRAIN WRECKING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12899, 9 February 1906, Page 5

ATTEMPT AT TRAIN WRECKING.

THK SECOXI> EXPRESS IX I)AX<iKH

Per Pns*» Aswditios.

. DCXKIMX, Fcktistr 8. . Wsi.ij *j»pc3H to have been .* deliberate s>".tnuj»i s« wieck tlie jecntad expie»* train to liivr;«.ujjiH wfl* tnad« no \Veiinw4«t night. Ik.'mk searhio;; a. Mtwli bridge abum ii siiile lima Wliiwrra the wcie Martled by a biwry jo!t. weie .ipplicd. but before the train *a* stopped another joJt wa* ieit. An eimiiiaiiou showed ilul the first jolt wa* fjicrftd by ii'h plate being >luck cod tup kl«(«a two lerglb* «if rail*; the jtecond' wa.* ca»w*i by she luilcpost being laid sctwn tbe wli Tbi* was jammed in the bospey xrbce3* of the engine attnl it took aboEt 15 minute* to cxiriiMte il." Hut <t«r tiir fnxwnptitode «if the driver in pullinc up it in probable ltu»{ the abttraclioa would bare throart} the train «ff tbe rai *. The matter b« bona in the hands of tie psilice.

IXVKRCABOIM.. ftbreaty 8. A deliberate attempt w«* tn*de (■» itattil the aouth bound esp>c«* belweetr Kaihiltu and Waiwera U»t night, h>r« nl imo bc> ing kid arnw* the intJai*. a cnitepwt a little distance away, the latter Ueisg lashed with wire *ecutvd to drrrvo into the deeper*. Driver Moloney feJt the engine over the obctroctiuw and palled up ahajp. No damage was doc* and the train proceeded, afler the wire and broken post, were taken ftom. the coder gear of the engine. Tbe railway at the p3a«j raa.» through a. flat. It i* *aid that l*» b«n«> men galloped away juat befoivs tie train pawed. but the poSoe are inclined Ho think that the act wan the work of bay*. The method of fixing tfee ob*Sr«csj«n indkuUe* olderjirad* and mm experience.