FATAL ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON.
The unfortunate victim was an elderly man named Thomas Madi«an keeper of the Kaiwarra toll-L^te.' From what we have been able to learn of-the~eas-aaity r -itappears_thaJb at abpjft-10 minutes past 5 on Wednesday afteluoon, MaiHjgi& went ouflSo the ■£Bp!%r£P J™* a rafc *i >$fto#*fter havin^AfMO&Jiii few inches from thaumter rail. Just at that time^hjj^.&.igjptrain to tbo Hafct appeare^^n^Maaigan was several . r&OTfv^a&gan impression that Jifi_tfas quite s.ife, did not >^nsm,«mm&wm*i3m of course, quite xmaJble to stop the train, ■9 EttdWiltl rgte« |4| the consequence B *afta&jrf[ the cowcatcher struck Madiganu with terrible force, throwing him a consicfcraUle^i^nce , m tbjCT.eUffililß ftp unfortunXinan fel^«^a^fgaw«A fe#fw, head downyiatdBf&a.i<&: distance of fully six feet . ''from uthetsptoael where he had^ood. j; tM'W h fflfr - t0 ?1| afipeamnoiSead • was so slipfe* W to be scarcely per- " S W?Hte\r^ n el o y ed near th^ o^tW|Mya^ him into the toll-hotle; aWmP Cameron, who aid. M^M^Yi^u. whom the woftKn^nfti^a^iVless than a of the mSseneer^thW^aKtoV^n^d arrived at'^waWSml was ministering i J?» th AS9%er. The medical exajninattffijjKffi wWin a terrible ststeT His" thigh "Boiie do wn to the kneejoint^^Jiterally crushed fco * BSjP-Zlre ffifllßfflL ' ' OQe mass °^ Dru^PP^Bj|^p^^pth eyes were>
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 85, 7 March 1884, Page 2
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192FATAL ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 85, 7 March 1884, Page 2
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