Fatal Railway Accident.
A GANGEK KILLED. A railway ganger named John Head met with a fatal accident on Thursday on the railway line near the Waitotara station. It appears that he was screwing up some fish-plates near a curve in the line, and from some cause, as the fcraia was approaching 2ze fell forward on to the rails. The engine struck him on the head and inflicted a frightful wound on the temple, smashing in the skull. The man was taken to the Wanganui Hospital, where the operation of trepanning was performed, but the poor fellow rapidly sank, and died that evening. Head, sajs the Chronicle, was a married man with eight children, and during the last sixteen months lost five little ones, two of them by drowning. He was fifty years of age He was in the railway service for the past sixteen years, and was noted for his ability and care in his work. Head former! v lived at Longburn.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 246, 20 April 1895, Page 2
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