FATALITY AT ARAMOHO
MAN KILLED BY RACE TRAIN.
Wanganui, Thursday. A middle-aged man named Jack Meadows, a carter, married, with 1 • . three children, was struck by a railway engine near Aramoho on Thursday evening and killed. Deceased was very deaf and did not hear the train approaching. From enquiries' made by a representative of the “Manawatu Times” it was ascertained that the deceased man Meadows was a ‘resident’of Aramoho, and in steppinjr from the rear of a stationary train at the siding- was knocked down by a raee train shunting on to the main lines. iV, sengers by the train to Palmerston Xortji declare that the unfortunate man was caught at the points and frightfully mutilated. His features being quite unrecognisable. Death must have been instantaneous. The body was removed to the siding and covered with a tarpaulin pending the arrival of the police.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19220520.2.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144FATALITY AT ARAMOHO Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in