RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 19 July 1890, Page 4

RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

A WOMAN CUT TO PIECES. Shortly after 6 o’clock the other afternoon a woman, whose name proves to be Eliza Morris or Williams, of Lcichardt, was run over by a train at Stanmore station, Sydney, and from the terrible injuries she received it is evident that death must have been instantaneous. The train from under which her body was removed was the 5.27 p.tn. from Sydney, and it is believed that it was this train that caused her death, although no blood stains are to bo seen on the front of the engine or on the wheels. No one actually witnessed the occurrence, but as tho train came to a standstill a porter on theother«ide of tho platform saw tho body under tho third car—an American secondclass carriage—and he assisted to extricate it. No signs of life were apparent, and the terribly-mangled condition of the body rendered a medical man’s opinion unnecessary. As neither the driver nor fireman on the engine saw the woman on the lino as they entered the station, it is surmised that she fell from a passing train or else slipped between the carriuges while attempting to alight from the moving train. From the appearance of tho clothing the unfortunate woman was wearing she is thought to have been a domestic servant.