Fire, flood or disaster · 05.07.1914
Wrong points at Paide station
Valesti seatud pöörmed Paide jaamas
On the afternoon of Saturday 5 July 1914 word spread through Paide that there had been a railway smash at the station. Just outside the station, the train coming in from Türi had been sent over wrongly set points onto a siding where a gravel train was standing. The engine, six gravel wagons and two goods wagons were smashed, one gravel wagon was driven into a goods van and wheels were flung a fathom off the track. The passengers escaped with a fright, but workers taking their lunchtime nap in the gravel train were hurt, two women seriously enough to be carried to hospital.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Laupäeva, 5. juuli pärastlõunal 1914 levis Paides kiiresti sõnum, et jaamas on juhtunud raudteeõnnetus. Jaama lähedal oli Türilt tulev rong valesti seatud pöörmete kaudu juhitud kõrvalteele, kus seisis liivarong. Purunesid vedur, kuus liivavagunit ja kaks kaubavagunit, üks liivavagun tungis kaubavaguni sisse ja rattaid paiskus süld maad tee kõrvale. Sõitjad pääsesid ehmatusega, kuid liivarongis lõunauinakut pidanud töölised said viga, kaks naist nii raskesti, et nad kanti kanderaamil haiglasse.