TRAIN COLLIDES WTIH MILITARY WAGON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 8

TRAIN COLLIDES WTIH MILITARY WAGON

. —•— — AT RAILWAY CROSSING SIX SOLDIERS. INJURED (By Telegraph—Press. Association.) Carterton, December 20. The railway crossing near , the Bank of NowxZealancl, Feathcrston, wliera a motor and train accidont occurred last week, was the scene' of another catastrophe this moriiing.v A military transport wagon, drawn by « two ; horses and having on board six I ■ men, was approaching the'.crossing, as the.train leaving at a quarter to 12 was J ■ proceeding to ( Wellington. Apparently . • the -men on the wagon did not hear.,or ' seethe-train approaching, and the train ' ''did not'see them,' the result I aeing that, the train caught the horses on the rails. The wagon was smashed, 1 and woniided j men were lying in all directions. . j • Ono horse was carried on' the cp.w.'catcher to tlie next crossing, where it 1 was shot. -. ; The men, Corporal Harding, Pte. v. . Stewart, Drivers Evans and F. Thomas, and Sergt. MacKissack and Ptc. New- 1 man, wore all hurt..' Five of the in- i - jured men admitted to Greytoivn ■Hospital, and one to the military hos- : pital. Three of thorn are suffering from serious liead" injuries, and two from shock, and the other man from minor abrasions. ' , ' ' J NATURE OF THE INJURIES. i Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) j Masterton, December 20. , -'Further particulars show that':the ' • whole of the. men injured belonged to D Company, Tenth Reinforcements. ; . Tli'o nature of the men's injuries is as follows:— - V : .J" . ( ■ " Corporal ITardino; —Concussion and. r .severe': scalp" wound. ; . ■ ...Driver Evans—Severe wound on head and injury to hand. : i Private Hector Stew art—Concus sion } ■ '.severe-scalp. wound, and sprained ankle. , Private Francis Thomas—Slight i con- ; cussion, wound on head and ,elbow v Private Percy Newman-j—Shock and slight -injury .to thigh. • ; ■ - Tlio mail admitted to the militaryhospital is suffering from a fractured I collarbone. -