ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. A RAILWAY PORTER'S DEATH. ' ; . (By .Tcloeraph-Press Association.! ■'y' • ■ Chrittchurch, October 28.' v . At tho inquest concerning the .death of' Joht / Taylor, a railway porter, who ■ was killed'aiSouthbrook - yesterday., morning,'RichardJohn Stone; who was drivmg the-north express train, stated .that;.ivhen approaching- Southbrook at';& spood of from: I' 2to 15 miles.an .hour, ho>no-; ticed: the-tablet porter ' walking .along:the plat;form • towards ■ the. cabini ■ The porter: went'.'ifr'''■* side the,cabin: aiidi got' the- tablet! itf lavaling. \ He' returned t<j' the.edge of.' the platform, held; his tablet up m : tbe ; brdper way, and seemed to overbalance . himself'*. as 'the:, 'cab of tho engine caine levfel with him'. He made a step, to save himself,' and the cab s struck .'pnoi.of,' his; arms, twistiilgiMiiin rptand, an'd.befpre' he could, reoover, th'e tablet .the side,-of the', head. JAs >he lay on;,the,'.plat- '.' form,.before.vthe'-traiii oduld-; do.' : pulled; ; 'ujv . threo stepson.'tho'"nearest carriages alsd ste<jck\'; : him.: : The * exchanger oh ,*.,thcj'' engine : -wass. «>f; ons t'iron, and - the, blow snapped ■ it -,oCf; ■ . exolianger projected about ono and a half inches;, from the engine. . Taylor was. probably .dsirf. before being, put'oh- thft , train for;'coflveyanwr i to Rangiora.i The ooroncr roturned a voidict* of "Death accidentally caused while oxchang v ing tablets." .-r/..'.-■ V VI; 'V-