A TRAIN FATALITY.
BALLAST TRAIN DRIVER KILLED.
NEAR PUKETUTU STATION
A sad fatality occurred this morning on the railway near Puketutu station, when E. Kinsman, driver of the ballast train which left Te Kuiti for south at 6.20 a.m. was killed. Exactly how tha accident occurred it is difficult to determine, but it appears as if deceased, who W2s looking out of the cab, must have over-balanced or slipped outwards, and 83 the train was crossing the bridge over the Mokau river the unfortunate man's head was struck by the bridge. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was a single man, aged about thirty, and had just arrived from the south, being one of the additional staff rendered necessary by the alterations to the train arrangements which came into force on November Ist. It was deceased's first run on the line. An inquest is to be held, but nothing definite therewith has yet been fixed.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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153A TRAIN FATALITY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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