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Maureen years ago, 151 people As New Zealand marks the 60th Bennett recalled the trauma died in the Tangiwai of losing her brother 16 anniversary of the Tangiwai rail Megapixel railway disaster. Desmond James ‘‘Des’’ Sensor OA dramatic mudflow, or Capper, who was travelling disaster, ANDRE BRETT tells for the 16x lahar, was unleashed from Mt from Wellington to Huntly to Optical Zoom Ruapehu when the crater first time the story of the only survivor visit his family for Christmas. lake’s wall collapsed. Three family members CanonCanon 32x Generic Classic 50 in 1 It surged down the drove down from Huntly. Zoom Plus Whangaehu River, destroying from the train’s second carriage. Bennett remembered that trip SuperSuper ZoomZoom CameraCamera Pocket Games 16 Bit 3" • 50 games in 1 • 16Bit graphics engine • 1.8" full colour LCD screen the railway bridge at as confronting. 7 Fly Buys Points Model: SX170IS 124721 / 126315 LCD Screen ColourColour ooptionsptioons mmayay vvaryaryy by sstoretore Model: Q2 1.8 126753 Tangiwai. The Wellington to By a stroke of luck, Brett ground. Only then did he ‘‘It was pretty hard trying Auckland overnight express was thrust against a window. notice the cold and his to positively identify someone plunged into the raging He punched frantically. The injuries. His clothes were who was injured and covered Summer torrent. force of the water began destroyed. ‘‘No wonder I was in grime.’’ $ $ The driver, fireman, one breaking apart the carriage, cold.’’ Cuts courtesy of the Her brother’s body was party machine first-class passenger and 148 and he smashed a hole in the shattered window ran from never found. 224949eachh NNOWOW 299 of the 176 second-class glass. He struggled through Brett’s right hand all the way ‘‘For a long time passengers died. the window, pushing and to his armpit. afterwards, I thought that he $ Among the few from the kicking. ‘‘My right fist was about would walk in,’’ Bennett SAVE 70 second-class carriages to This haunted him for seven times bigger than what recalled. ‘‘I believe he is at survive was Richard Edward years. He could never be sure it normally was.’’ He had rest somewhere known only Limited stock # Brett, 18, known to all as Ted, if, in his desperation to sulphur and soot in his eyes unto God.’’ who somehow avoided being escape, he accidentally kicked and his whole body ached. It took more than three swept to his death down the away people trying to follow ‘‘I didn’t even know the years to receive a death flooded river. him. damn river’s name. I didn’t certificate. ‘‘The water was completely ‘‘It’s a nightmare,’’ he know where I was. Almost In March 1957, the blinding,’’ he would later recalled, ‘‘especially when didn’t know who I was.’’ Tangiwai National Memorial BONUS^ Leap Frog LEAP PAD GAME recall. ‘‘It was full of sulphur, you think of the women and As he tried to get his was unveiled at Karori WORTH $39 PhilipsP 300 Watt Docking System engine oil, and other muck children in there.’’ bearings, car headlights Cemetery in Wellington. It Leappad Ultra 111 Fly Buys Points and debris.’’ blinded him. Rescuers had listed the 151 killed. ‘‘Des 9 Fly Buys Points • Rotatable dock for playing and charging your iPod/iPhone • 3.5mm The only survivor from the arrived and were using their would be joking about having • 7" high resolution screen • Built-inn rechargeablerecchargeable batterybbattery ••8 8GBGB storagestorage aux and USB Direct for easy music playback • 2 x microphone inputs second carriage, he made vehicles to illuminate the his name etched in marble,’’ Model: ULTRAPINK 126544 / 126545 Colour options may vary by store and Karaoke features Model: FWP3100D 132070 iPod not included notes on the disaster and gave scene. Bennett said. two unpublished interviews When they reached Brett, When the Whangaehu is before he died in 2008. Here, they saw his ‘‘pillow’’, and the calm, it is hard to imagine for the first time, is his story. small child was immediately how it could kill. Dramatic $ OOurur LLowestowest $ He called December 24, rushed to help. ‘‘Someone was scarring on the banks quickly 168 **** 399 1953, ‘‘the turning point of my saying they would get it to reveals the river’s force. PPricerice EEverver life’’. He was travelling from hospital and I assume that’s Tangiwai is New Zealand’s Masterton to Auckland for what happened.’’ fifth worst disaster by death GGiftift IIdeadea Christmas with his friend He never found out what toll and remains prominent in John Cockburn, 17, and happened; he did not even our historical consciousness. 7" 8GB Everyone John’s 12-year-old brother, know if the child was still It eclipsed the previous worst Touchscreen Hard Drive Display Douglas. alive when he gave it to the New Zealand railway wants a 1.5GHz Android When the trio boarded, rescuers. disaster, the loss of 21 people Dual Core 4.1 they found their first-class Was he a hero who had on June 4, 1943 at Hyde, Processor Tablet for seats occupied by an elderly saved a child’s life? He never Central Otago. couple. would have accepted the title The memory of Hyde had Xmas A guard promised the boys – carrying the ‘‘pillow’’ out of already been obscured by the NextbookN Whirlpool 24 Litre they could have the seats once the water was the least he wartime climate within 77" 8GB Tablet Crisp and Grill Microwave White the couple disembarked; in could do after it kept him which it occurred. Hyde was a 6 Fly Buys Points 15 Fly Buys Points the meantime, they sat in the afloat. hard disaster to comprehend, Model:M M7000DA • H 299 x W 521 x D 391mm • 800 watt output power • Jet menu second carriage. Brett’s rescuers gave him caused by a mix of speed, 1247201 Model: VT266WH 116940 Almost everybody aboard brandy and rum; he gulped alcohol, and poor was travelling for Christmas. down the brandy before maintenance. Tangiwai was Excitement was particularly realising what it was. more straightforward – a PLUS #### high as many hoped to see the He was taken first to natural disaster beyond any Queen in Auckland. It was the nearby Karioi, then on to control. first visit of a reigning Ohakune with other young ‘‘I have never put blame on monarch to New Zealand. survivors. [New Zealand Railways] and By 10pm, the second It was a surreal, sorrowful say it was an act of God,’’ INTEREST FREE carriage was quiet as the Christmas. Local people Bennett said. train travelled north from opened their homes; The drama of Tangiwai ON PRODUCTS Waiouru. Most passengers businesses provided free food. continues to resonate, its * were mothers and children ‘‘They tried to make timing on Christmas Eve who had settled in for the Christmas a little happier for making it all the more STOREWIDE $499 & OVER night. Tribute: A memorial to the us but we were still worried poignant. 12 INCLUDES APPLE COMPUTERS & iPADS Brett, fairly sure he was Tangiwai disaster, listing the 151 about our friends.’’ The story of international lives lost, was erected at MONTHS AvailableA instore and online. From no deposit. *Excludes Apple iPhones. Credit and lending criteria, $55 establishment fee and $55 annual fee apply. the only passenger awake, John and Douglas were cricketer Bob Blair, on tour in was hoping to photograph Mt Tangiwai Bridge, near Mt dead. John’s was one of 20 South Africa when his fiancee Ruapehu, which had Ruapehu, in 1957. bodies never found, though Nerissa Love was killed at impressed him on a previous the train tickets from his shirt Tangiwai, has captured the trip. Nobody else escaped that pocket were recovered public imagination on both He bought night film for carriage. They did not stand a beneath the locomotive. stage and screen. the occasion but bad weather chance, as the carriage was Brett lived with Plays such as Yvette thwarted his plans. turned over repeatedly and unanswered questions and Parsons’ Silent Night have From Everyone At Noel Leeming Suddenly the train shredded by the lahar. the physical effects of explored different personal slammed on its brakes. Caught by the current, Tangiwai. experiences. PM ‘‘The scream of steel on Brett was swept fortuitously When he returned to Poet Alan Loney attempted 24 DEC 9AM-6 steel is something you really to a calmer part of the river Masterton, his joyful family to deal with the death of a TUE 24 DEC 9AM-6PM remember,’’ Brett said. sheltered by the largely intact reunion was tempered by his schoolboy friend at Tangiwai OR SHOPSHOP 24/7 24/7 WWW.NOELLEEMING.CO.NZ WWW.NOELLEEMING.CO.NZ EN EVEN LATER ‘‘All of a sudden there was first carriage.