Fatality at Aramoho Station.
A fatal accident occurred on Wednesday morning through the incoml ig south train at n o’clock colliding with the ’bus at the Aramoho crossing, close to the railway bridge. The engine whistled before coming on the bridge and while on the bridge, but the driver of the ’bus apparently took no notice, and the engine struck the vehicle fair in the centre.
The engine-driver saw tho ’bus just before the collision and applied the Westinghouse brake and brought the train to a standstill, but not until the ’bus and horses had been carried over the railway stops. The driver of the’bus tell, and was caught by the cowcatcher and was taken from under it in a state of collapse; He died on his way to the hospital. Fortunately . only two passengers were in the ’bus, one an old lady sustaining a deep gash on the head and a little girl was unhurt, as was also the conductor of the ’bus, who jumped off, and the three horses in the ’bus. The deceased was named Ennis, part proprietor of the service between Wanganui and Aramoho, and an elderly man.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1902, Page 3
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192Fatality at Aramoho Station. Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1902, Page 3
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