SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 28 June 1917, Page 3

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

MILITARY RECRFIT FALLS FROM A TRAIN. A serious accident befell a military recruit mimed David Lit Ice on Tuesday morning. He and others who had been told off to go into camp left for Trentham by a train which pulled out of (he Lamhton Station, Wellington, at 8.30 o’clock. Shortly afterwards he complained of feeling sick, amt he went, out of the carriage in order to gel some fresh air, and sat down on the platform. No sooner had he done so than he fainted, and fell off on lo the railway line, one of Ihe carriage wheels passing over his left leg and severing it. The guard at once brought the train to a standstill, and after ihe injured man hud been attended to by Col. Purdy, Director of Medical Sendee, who was passing along the road in his motor ear when the accident occurred, he’was placed on hoard an incoming train, and brought hack to Lamhton Station, whence he was removed to tho Hospital. The unfortunate man, who had come from Otago, is reported this afternoon to he doing as well as can be expected.