GREYMOUTH.
v Sunday. hH Seventy-four hours heavy rain hail caused a flood m the river, but so fall but little damage was done to the town! beyond flooding all the lower parts of MM At noon to-day about & chains of thel inner side of the harbour works gav<J way, carrying the railway metals and! trucks into the • river. At the sameH time a locomotive and two stone trucklH were being tipped with stone to preseirfl the face of the worts, which is of sandfl This gave way, and both tracks ; attdfl
locomotive went inter the river,, and the locomotive is now^ lying partly on the bank, and is attached by ,a rope to iireventita disappearing m the stream. The men on the trucks and the engineer on the locomotive narrowly escaped with their lives.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 106, 24 October 1877, Page 2
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134GREYMOUTH. Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 106, 24 October 1877, Page 2
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