WOMAN UNDER TRAIN
4 Jostled by Holiday Crowd LYTTELTON ACCIDENT By Telegraph — Press Association Christchurch, January 21. Thousands of people at the Lyttelton railway station to night waiting for trains after the departure of H..M.A.S. Australia, were deeply shocked by an accident which occurred as the tiisi train was pulling into the .platform Mrs. Lillian Marquet. of S Wildber.v Street, Woolston. who was standing near the edge of the platform, was pushed bv the crowd over the edge. She fell beneath the train, and one of the wheels came to rest over her thigh ■■ The train was immediately broken and the carriage was with difficulty: jacked up It was a quarter of an hour before she could be extricated amt removed to hospital by an ambulance She received a compound fracture of the left thigh, and mutilation of the limb
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 10
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140WOMAN UNDER TRAIN Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 10
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