The Sawyer’s Bay Railway Accident.
The early morning goods train from Oaniaru collided with a cow at Sawyer’s Station, where the North Main line junctions with the Bort Chalmers' line, and was thrown off the rails. The engine crashed through the shunting rails ami. mounting the station platform, drove into the ladies' waitingroom. when the boiler became detached from the bogie. The driver and the fireman crawled out of the wreckage quite unhurt. The sheep trucks were smashed to pieces, and piled up on top of the tender, the sheep being terribly mangled. Some 60 or 70 sheep were killed or maimed.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 39
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102The Sawyer’s Bay Railway Accident. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 39
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