ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

'killed on the railway LINE. [Per Press Association.] Woodville, June 11. An elderly man named Alf. Synionds was run into by the seven o’clock train to Palmerston last night and killed outright. He had been working all day shifting coal at tin gas works, and was going home along the railway line. The accident happened just outside Woodvilo. Deceased was aged about 50 years, and leaves a widow and two daughters, both married.

A TRAIN FATALITY

Christchurch, June 11. (An inquest on Edith Amelia Hennadene, a single woman residing nt East Oxford, who met with her death yesterday afternoon near Opawa, was held to-dfly. Henry George Hunt, a traveller, said that he was a passenger by the 3.15 p.m. train from Lyttelton. At about Opawa station deceased passed him as if she were parsing through the train. When she stepped on to the platform of a firstclass carriage, her hat blew off. She let go her grip of the handrail to try and catch her hat, and the wind turned her round and carried her backwards on to the other line, on which a train was travelling. r Jhe train did not touch her at all. Richard Knighton, a ganger on the Lyttelton line, said he found deceased lying on the other set of rails to which the train was on. She was quite- dead. In answer to the coroner, he stated that the train was travelling between twenty-five and thirty miles an hour at the time. The ’coroner. recorded a verdict that deceased was accidentally killed by falling off a train between Lyttelton and Christchurch. AXOEHER SHUNTING. FATALITY. Dunedin, June 11. A shunter named George Neal, a married man,>_ was shunting in the yard when his foot, it is thought, was •caught in the points. He was caught by the train and dragged some distance, being practically killed outright. : ' '