ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2711, 4 March 1916, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

— SOLDIER KILLED ,BY A TRAIN ACCIDENT AT TIIENTHAM. A fatal accident occurred oil tlie railway lino m tlio vicinity of tlio Trentliam 11 hour oil Thursday night. J no last train from Wellington left the Lambton Station at II o'clock, end waa drawing in.to t'ho Trentliam Station about midnight, when Private Thomas \\ allace, of £ Company, '10th Keinforcea niGiits, ieil oil the platlorm of on© of j J"? carnages an<J was run over, death being instantaneous. The guard felt the tram bumping oyer some object and signalled to the engine-driver, who put on the brakes and- promptly brought I the locomotive to a standstill. A search along the line revealed Wallace's body, .the deceased, who was 25 years of and unmarried, belonged'to the \\ est Coast, where he had worked as a miner. Before he enlisted he was employed at Arthur's Pass by the Public Works Department. THE INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon Mr. D. G. 'A. Cooper, Coroner, held an inquesttouchingthe death of Private Wallace. One i police who gave evidence stated that he was of opinion that Wallace had been standing between the carnages when the train started, knocked him down, and ran over him. The Coroner found that death was accidentally causcd, and that 110 oiie *vas blameworthy.