FATAL ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3783, 28 January 1908, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Gore, January 26. A distressing fatality occurred on Saturday evening as the 9.30 express train was approaching the Gore railway station. It appears a young man named George Urban Bindley, accompanied by a young lady named Annie Stewart, daughter of Mr David Stewart, farmer, of Croydon Siding, were driving along Mersey street, and as the train approached, the crossingkeeper called out to them to stop. Lindley, who was driving, pulled up for a moment, and then suddenly drove on, with the result that the train struck the forepart of the buggy, sending the horse to one side of the line, and the buggy and Miss Stewart were carried on about thirty yards. Spectators on the platform were horrified to see the man’s body on the foot-plate of the engine, lying against the smoke-box as soon as the train drew into the station. Lindley was quite dead. Miss Stewart received terrible injuries. , She lingered until six o’clock this morning, when she expired. ■ Both the deceased were 26 years of age. It is stated that the electric light lamps on either side of the crossing were not lighted, and neither the ehgine-driver nor the fireman saw the buggy as they swept round the curve over the crossing.