ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 460, 3 July 1902, Page 3

ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

CARRIAGES GO OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE,

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Dunedin, last night. There was another railway accident this foronoon, about a mile and a half north of Soaeliff, and it is surprising that tho consequences wero not more serious. How the accident occurred is not certain. The train left Dunedin for Oamaru at 7.40, and comprised an engine, three or four empty trucks, two intermediate vans, and two long bogio carriages, an American carriage, and guard’s van. About a mile and a quarter beyond Seacliff one of the trucks left tho metals, but this was not noticed by those on the train. The bumping told on tho axle box, whioh commenced to break up. Aftor leaving the cutting to round a wide curve, th. 3 driver apparently noticed that the truck was off the line, and put on the brakes. The momentum caused tho train to buckle, and the first carriage plunged down the embankment, pulling the next carriage half off tho line, and also two of the intermediate trucks in front, which fell on their sides, one mounting the platform of the carriage and smashing the ironwork. The carriage, though at an angle of 45 degrees, did not fall over. There were about twenty passengers on the train, and thoir first intimation of dangor was finding tho train going over the embankment. Fortunately all oscaped with a severe fright, with the exception of a young man who was thrown off the rear platform, and was bruised, and two girls who received a severe shaking. Had the derailment taken place a little further on, the results would have been much more serious,