Killed on the Railway Line
(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.} Timabu, September 28. A swagger, whose supposed name is William Cook, was killed on tbe Pareora railway bridge, by the 4.20 p.m. train for the South, to-day. The driver saw tbe man 200 yards away and sounded the whistle. The man paid no beed, so the engines were reversed and the brake put on ; bnt witb no avail. The man was overtaken, the cowcatcher striking bim on the legs and pitching bim bead foremost on to tbe sleepers of the bridge, the body rebounding to tbe riyer bed below. The man was picked up and sent on a trolly to tbe Timaru Hospital, where he died at 7.30, never regaining consciousness. The driver of the train thinks the man was stone deaf, or deliberately paid no heed to tbe warning whistle. The man is not known bere.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 79, 30 September 1893, Page 2
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