STRUCK BY TRAIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1923, Page 2

STRUCK BY TRAIN.

ELDERLY LADY KILLED. GREYAIOUTH. Fob 5

Struck by the engine of the 10.25 p.m. train from Ngabere, .Mrs Jane White, aged 57, succumbed to injuries received on the Blackball railway line on Saturday night. ( Tho night was very dark, with drilling rain. The engine was travelling slowly up an incline about half a mile from the Blackball Station. Tin* deceased, was lying across tho rails when the engine struck her. The driver. Stewart Orr, saw her. and pulled ii]) the train in an engine’s length, luii too late to avoid striking the deceased. When the driver descended from the cab of the engine*. Airs White was standing on the side of the line. She was perfectly conscious, but was cut and bruised about the right side ol her lace. “] must have fainted and fallen across the line," she told the guard. Thomas bainhcrton, when plaein the van. Soon after she lost ctm- *• eioiiKilesx. On arival at Blackball Station. she was couvryed to her borne in a motor car.

Dr W. Little attended the deceased who. however, died shortb alter. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held, by the Acting Coroner. Mr F. M. Kilgour, and a jury of four. Detective J. ii. Young watched proceedings on behalf of the police and Mr K* Cameron. District Trallic Manager, acted on behalf of the Railway Department. Evidence was given as to tlie accident and what occurred alter.

The deceased, it was -lated, hud been attended for Lite past two years by a doctor and was .suffering Loin ne.vous trouble. Site had evideu.L wandered out on the railway amt taken a weakness.

A verdict that deceased died truth shock following on injuries receive.! in the accident was returned, un blame being attachable to anyone. 1 lie hue Mrs While, who was widlknow'll and highly respected by a wu. circle of friends. had had several bereavements in •■■• r family in recent years. During th inlluenza cprier l c she lost her husband, her -on. r.nu two of her daughters-in law . The deceased is survived by two daughters, one sou and a niece, all ye sklents of Blackball. Mrs I’eU-r Williamson .of Blackball, is a. daughter of deceased. The relatives will have general sympathy in their sudden bereavement .