OAMARU.
. ■ ' ..;..- , • May 7. A railway accident occured here on Saturday night, by which a man named JT. S. Arthur was killed. The particulars are as follows :— When the down train from Christchurch, due at 8 p.m., was within 50C yards of the" Lower Belt station, the driver noticed ' the engine passed over some soft object, but he thought it was a stray sheep. The circumstance, was reported to the station master, who sent a man to search. The messenger was horror struck to find "the body of a man lying alongside the track nearly severed m two. Life, of course, was extinct. The deceased appeared about 26 years old, and had neither boots, stockings, or coat on. From papers found^ on his person his name was ascertained, and that he arrived from Glasgow, m February per ship. .Auckland.' He had been working at" Anderson's flour mill, Dunedin, and latterly at Kakanui. He came to .Oaniarti on Saturday .and got drunk ; missed the return train, and evidently started to walk along the line, but mistook his way. going north instead of south. An inquest will be held to-day.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 59, 12 May 1877, Page 3
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