A Dreadful Experience

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 45, 3 October 1889, Page 2

A Dreadful Experience

.#. LYING WOUNDED IN A RAILWAY TRACK. REMARKABLE PRESENCE OF MI.ND. (Post's Own Corroepondent.) fPER S.S. MANAPOURI AT THE BLXTFF-1 Melbouune, September 24. Au unfortunate woman named Margaret O'Keefe, who was found on the Brighton line on Tuesday 24th Sept. must have passed a fearful night. On Monday she wandered on to the line, and was knocked down by a train, which severed her leg above the ankle. With remarkable fortitude she tore her clothes and applied bandages, which stayed the bleeding and preserved her life. That done, there was nothing for it but to lie awaiting the dawn in great physical suffering, and not knowing whether the day would bring her succour, or be heralded bj tho rush of a train, which would crush her to death. She must have endured agonies which would have unhinged the reason of a weaker woman. '■ For tunately the driver of the first trair saw her, pulled up, and, alighting, discovered her plight Her conditioi when taken to the Hospital was sc critical that the doctors would noi ply her with questions. The woman' j suffering must command universal pity, whilst her heroism cannot fail t< excite an admiration as general at profound. The presence of mine which enabled her to act with sucl judgment whilst enduring the acutes pain is unfortunately rare. It is i matter for deep regret that the coun age which might have accomplished so much should be thrown away.