RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON.
(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, February 8. A nother accident has occurred on lho Wellington • Masterton railway. On Saturday afternoon a passenger traia was beiag passed up the steep incline on the Feathorston sirio uf the liiumtika, and had just passed through a fcusinel, wlisn the gripping apparatus of tho engine) o;avo v/ay and the traiu began to run down hill, The brakes were applied, and fortunately held, tho trava liriu^iog up in the tunnol, Tiu> lady ]).-uss( ;jj?crs bfcawe greatly excil< d, several f dinting aad screaming — il»o darkness .'ukliujr to their fright. Mo^t of the pasuei "fo'ers jumped _out, sonvo ousfaininr sl'ftbt iujuiies. If the hv.ia had mavi'l aftor tlio p:issongßr3 jumpr>rl out, sewj of them would have beca ctuuhud to death.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11124, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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128RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11124, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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