Frightful Railway Disaster
A TRAIN WRECKED NEAR SYDNEY.
Sydney, June 22. A train containing k>o excursionists for Hawkesbury met with an accident at Peat's River yesterday. Shortly after leaving that place the WostinghouscHorusby brake failed. The train was too heavy for the light engine, and attained a velocity of 70 miles an hour down a steep declivity. The guard applied the brakes, but without avail, and .! ;x)intsn.uu, seeing the danger of the whole train running into the sea, turned it on to a siding, where it dashed into some trucks. Two carriages nearest the engine wore and the engine fell into the sea. Wilson, the driver, Ronnie, the engineer, Henry Hankins, a voung man and two girls (names unknown), wore killed, and fully 40 people injured.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2084, 24 June 1887, Page 2
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