TRAIN HITS JIGGER.
SURFACEMAN KILLED. Timaru, December 8. A fatal accident occurred on the railway line here to-night, about a mile from the town, when a goods train travelling north ran into a railway jigger on which David Maxwell, /a. railway surfaceman, was returning home from his day’s work and David Rennett, a freezing works employee, was riding as passenger. The driver of the train applied the emergency brakes but was unable to prevent a collision. Maxwell suffered a compound t fracture of the left leg and left arm and concussion, and subsequently died in hospital. Rennett suffered a broken elbow and was severely bruised about the head but it is not expected his injuries will be fatal.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3573, 9 December 1926, Page 2
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118TRAIN HITS JIGGER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3573, 9 December 1926, Page 2
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