RUN DOWN BY TRAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 1

RUN DOWN BY TRAIN

WOMAN KILLED ON WAY TO PICTURES SISTER SEVERELY INJURED (From Our Own Correspondent > HAMILTON, Wednesday. One women was killed and another was seriously injured when they were run into by a train at the Frankton Junction railway station this evening. KILLED Mrs. Mary Gash, a widow, aged 60 years, of Takapuna. SERIOUSLY INJURED Mrs. Florence Beatrice Rowe, aged 61*. wife of Mr. Alfred G. Rowe, stock agent. Rifle Range Road, Frankton. Mrs. Mary Gash was staying with her sister, Mrs. Rowe, and they were going to the pictures at Frankton when the accident happened. The sisters were taking a short cut along the railway line in the station yards, and were walking between two sets of rails. They saw a shunting train approaching and, evidently thinking they were on the track of this train, they stepped on to another set of rails, right into the path of a Huntly goods train, which was drawing into the Frankton station at about 10 miles an hour. The driver of the train, Mr. R. Buchanan. pulled up promptly, but was not able to avert an accident. Mrs. Gash removed recently from Bayswater to Takapuna. She leaves a son, Mr. William Gash, who is employed by Messrs. George Walker. ! td.. and three daughters, two of whom arc married. Another sister is Mrs. Agnes Boyer, of Pompallier Terrace, Ponsonby. Mrs. Rowe was admitted to the Waikato Hospital, suffering from head injuries, the full extent of which has not yet been ascertained. She was in a semi-conscious condition this evening.