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i made anther voki ovr here is called darrens voki 2.soon we are learning about ww2 media type="custom" key="12597628" Here is My voki 3 media type="custom" key="12685592"media type="custom" key="12703526"media type="custom" key="12703550"media type="custom" key="12813246"media type="custom" key="12813294"media type="custom" key="12813382" here is my wild self called ningago .and we are learning about water safteymedia type="custom" key="13386828"media type="custom" key="13386902"media type="custom" key="13425992" heres my lava lampmedia type="custom" key="13426176"media type="custom" key="13426304" w.a.l.a mangrovesmedia type="file" key="ww1.wp3.wmv" width="300" height="300" Evidence given at the commission of inquiry into the disaster revealed that the midstream piers of the bridge had been undermined by previous sudden floods, from as early as 1925. Concrete blocks weighing several tons had been placed around the footings of these piers and the space between the blocks and the piers backfilled with gravel, but the lahar was strong enough to sweep these away. The cause of the lahar was the collapse of a natural volcanic ash dam blocking the outlet of [|Mount Ruapehu]’s crater lake down the Whangaehu glacier. Until this disaster, the danger posed by lahars from Mount Ruapehu was appreciated by only a few scientists The damage inflicted by the lahar washed away one complete span and left only the rails, supported by the remaining concrete piers. When the train ran onto the bridge the rails were incapable of supporting its weight and buckled in the middle. The engine had nearly made it to the other side when the bridge gave way. The locomotive and first carriage were launched into the air by striking a remaining concrete pier and reached the opposite bank of the river. The impact of the accident caused the locomotive's [|tender] to flip over the locomotive and rip the cab away from the engine, thereby killing the crew. Following the first carriage, the second to fifth carriages tumbled into the river and were torn apart, with substantial loss of life. One of the carriages was carried 5 miles (8 km) downstream by the lahar. All 5 of these carriages were second-class carriages; the leading first-class carriage was sixth in the train and it teetered on the edge of the bridge before its [|coupling] to the rest of the train snapped and, with nothing left to restrain it, it rolled into the river. The remaining three first-class carriages, the guard's van, and a [|travelling post office] van remained on the track.[|[][|1][|]] The **Tangiwai disaster** on 24 December 1953 was the worst [|rail] accident in [|New Zealand] history. An 11-carriage overnight express from [|Wellington] to [|Auckland] fell into the [|Whangaehu River] at Tangiwai, 10 kms (6 miles) west of [|Waiouru]. The bridge carrying the [|North Island Main Trunk Railway] over the river had been badly damaged just minutes earlier by a [|lahar] from [|Mount Ruapehu]. The [|KA class] [|steam locomotive], all 5 second-class carriages, and the leading first-class carriage derailed, resulting in the deaths of 151 of the 285 people aboard the train. Of the 176 second-class passengers aboard, only 28 survived. Shortly after the accident, rescue teams departed from Waiouru 8 km (5 mi) east of Tangiwai. These included soldiers from [|Waiouru Army Camp], radio operators from [|Irirangi] Naval Communications Station and [|MOW] workmen from the Waiouru Ministry of Works camp. By midnight survivors were being admitted into the Waiouru Camp Hospital, and by 4 am on Christmas morning bodies started arriving there. The Prime Minister, [|Sidney Holland], arrived at Tangiwai early on Christmas morning after a high-speed drive down from Auckland. He coordinated the rescue work by railway, army, police, navy, MOW, local farmers and undertakers. While the army led efforts near the accident site, local farmers recovered bodies further down the Whangaehu River; at Fields Track, Mount View, Mangamahu, Kauangaroa, Whangaehu village and the river mouth. The bodies were taken by truck to Wanganui and thence by rail to Waiouru, where police and undertakers identified them. Local settlers carried out daily search-and-recovery operations for the next month as bodies rose to the surface. Among the dead was Nerissa Love, the fiancee of cricketer [|Bob Blair], who was playing in a Test Match in South Africa at the time. On going out to bat after his loss, he received a standing ovation. Another victim was Suzanne Kennedy, daughter of a local farmer. She was coming home for Christmas and her family were waiting for her at the Karioi railway station, just beyond the Tangiwai bridge. The death toll of 151 consisted of 148 second-class passengers, 1 first-class passenger, the engine driver Charles Parker, and the fireman Lance Redman. 20 of the bodies were never found and were presumed to have been carried 120 km (75 mi) downriver to the ocean.[|[][|2][|]] However, over the last fifty years, the skeletons of several victims have been found in the eroding banks of the Whangaehu River[//[|citation needed]//]. When a farmer found the first skeletal remains from the Tangiwai 12 months after the disaster, he notified the police, and they investigated him for murder, causing great indignation in the district[//[|citation needed]//]. As a consequence, local settlers have quietly re-interred later skeletal finds[ Evidence given at the commission of inquiry into the disaster revealed that the midstream piers of the bridge had been undermined by previous sudden floods, from as early as 1925. Concrete blocks weighing several tons had been placed around the footings of these piers and the space between the blocks and the piers backfilled with gravel, but the lahar was strong enough to sweep these away. The cause of the lahar was the collapse of a natural volcanic ash dam blocking the outlet of [|Mount Ruapehu]’s crater lake down the Whangaehu glacier. Until this disaster, the danger posed by lahars from Mount Ruapehu was appreciated by only a few scientists