Extraordinary Accident.
fPER PBESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, March 7, While a railway engine was hauling three trucks one of them uncoupled and ran down the railway wharf with two men in it and went over into the sea. One of the men, named Schlein, was able to swim to the wharf, but the other, Diamond, an old man of 65 years, was struck by the truck in its descent and was disabled while iv the water. Daniel McKenzie, a seamau of the schooner Huia, promptly jumped into the water to Diamond's rescue and upheld him until rescued. Diamond had five ribs broken, and is in a critical condition.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 212, 8 March 1895, Page 2
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