FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1064, 24 November 1877, Page 2

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A very sad accident occurred yesterday on the recently formed line near the Colombo road crossing, which resulted in the death of James Hoddinott, one of the railway employees. About ten minutes past one o'clock Hoddinott, who was one of the horse drivers on the line, was removing a truck on the Addington side of the Colombo road gates, and while the truck was in motion he put his left foot on the brake, and was in the act of drawing the other up when his foot slipped and he fell across the rails, the fore wheels of the truck, which was empty, passing over his loins. The unfortunate man ti?ied to drag his body away, but as the truck was in motion le did not succeed in clearing the rails before the waggon wheel passed over his shins. He then wriggled off the line, and was at once picked up by a fellow workman named McNeill, who, though only two chains away at the time, and an observer of the accident, was unable to reach him in time. Assistance was soon at hand, and the poor fellow, who was in great agony, was removed to the Hospital, where he died at '2 p.m. It is sad to have to add that deceased leaves a widow and seven or eight children. He was a man of very temperate habits, and was perfectly sober at the time of the accident. An inquest will be held today.