RAILWAY FATALITY.
TRAIN CRASHES INTO MILK-CART
AND KILLS BOr.
|s‘ (Per Press Association.) Invercargill, last m'ght. This afternoon the express tram fcom ! Dunedin collided at the Gethon street I orcaiing in tbo town with a milk-eart i driven by a boy of 15, named Gbar.es J:Clark, who was thrown out with great ! Violence, and died from bis iojurios two ;hours later, The horeo was killed, ice lad was driving from tbo south, wbore ho bad a fair view of tho lino for some yards, but got on the rails, and the horse did not 'respond quick enough. It is a'so said tba f; bis attention wus diverted by boys runDing bohind tho cait as it approached tuo - crossing. , , An accident had been looked fur by ■ observant people since tho moil train wa3 Kituguratod, as it comes into town at a V great speed, and crosses sevon streets to pas than half-a mile with the moroit toot .oi a whistlo. Tho boy was tho son ot a ] flarpentsr residing in Tarn sireet.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 19 December 1905, Page 3
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171RAILWAY FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 19 December 1905, Page 3
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