STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 149, 22 April 1914, Page 4

STRANGER THAN FICTION.

REMARKABLE STORY. WHAT HAPPENED TO A TRAIN. A Sydney cable states that an alarming and extraordinary accident is reported to have happened to the mail train near Goulburn. The conncccting rod of the engine broke and fell on to the line. The first carriage missed it but the second struck it and was derailed. The driver of the train was .unaware of any trouble and the derailed carriage was dragged at the rate fo: forty miles an hour over two miles toi Joppa Junction, where the couplings broke. The front wheels of the second carriage In some marvellous manner here took the up line and the back wheels the. down line. The carriage ran a distance of sixty-six yards broadside on and stopped in the middle of a bridge over a creek. The remainder of the train, consisting of the brake van and six carriages containing many passengers, struck the catch points and moved down an incline towards a dead end, attaining a tremendous speed. A terrific smash appeared imminent when something caused the .couplings between the front and rear carriage to. break, operating the Westinghouse bVake. The carriages came to a sudden standstill, and nobody was injured.