Shocking Fatal Accident.
[Per Press Association.] Auckland, July 2. Patrick Really, aged 70, was accidentally killed on the railway line, between Remuera and Green Lane, by the half-past eight o’clock train from Auckland to Onehunga. As the train came within three yards of the first bridge from Remuera Station, R. Bennett, the driver, saw a man lying on the line. He lifted up his head as the train approached and yelled out. The brake was at once put on, but the train could not be stopped before it had passed over the body of the unfortunate man. Deceased’s hip bones were broken to pieces, and his legs were almost cut across below the knees. There was also a large hole in the skull above the left eyebrow. On a previous occasion deceased had lost one of thumbs and one of his big toes by an accident on the line.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 172, 2 July 1884, Page 2
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149Shocking Fatal Accident. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 172, 2 July 1884, Page 2
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