SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 5

SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

BOY LOSES BOTH HANDS. While going over the line at, tfee Glasgow road railway crossing. Huntly, at about noon on Wednesday, a little boy, six years of age, named Clyde Redshaw, a son of Mr Charles Redshaw, a Huntly miner, met with a shocking accident. It appears that the boy, who was proceeding home from school for lunch, crossed the line in the wake of two little girls, just as a train consisting of an engine and four or five trucks was shunting backward into the railway yard proper. The driver, while watching tha porter, who was signalling tha train in, noticed the predicament of the children, and blew his whistle twice, while some men who were unloading road metal from other waggons near at hand called out, "Stop," several times. The warning was either unheard, or unheeded. The girls had a narrow escape, but the boy was caught on the shoulder and knocked down by the rear waggon. He appeared to roll outwards, and managed to get his body clear of the line. His hands, which he had evidently used automatically to save himself from the fall, remained, unfortunately, inside the metals as the truck passed, with the result that both were almost completely severed from the arms a little above the wrists.