Slip in the Gorge.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3570, 26 June 1903, Page 2

Slip in the Gorge.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

A TRYING ORDEAL,

The heavy rain of yesterday morning must have loosened the earth on the hillside at the further end of the large tunnel in the Gorge, as a big slip cume down just between the trains from and to Palmerston. The line was clear when the Palmerston to Woodville train oame through, but the PalmerstonWoodville train ran into a big .'-lip which had come down just at the tunnel mouth. The train was running at a speed of 10 miles an hour, and before the brake would act the engine ran clean into the obstruction, which re-, suited in its being derailed. The rest of the train remained in the tunnel, the passengers gettin g an unpleasant shock. Had the train been a heavy one the impetus given by the body of the train would certainly have resulted in the engine plunging into the river below. Only a yard or so separated the wheels from the edge of rhe cliff. The passengers walked over the slip and were conveyed i by a special from the other side to Palmerston, reaching there about 11 o’clock last night. The line was cleared in time for traffic this morning.