SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

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SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

.MAX IJ1 ; X INTO AT XOlill AXUY. LI'ITUC lIOPK UK SbltVIVAk. News »f ii serious r.iihvav aicidci'.t was brought to lowii by iliu second express last night, which, owim; to delavs. (lid iinl.' reach hero till 'half paW II o'clock. from (lie iiK-.-ijri-:- details available, if appears (hat shortly before 7 o'clock, when the second express train from Wellington was approaching Norma nbv, all eldeiiv man named William Thompson, a'fanner residing on the Mountain road, Xormauby, who was returning homeward in a trap, was run into by the train at Winks' crossing close to tbc Nornianbv station. The horse was disembowelled and killed outright, and the spring trap was literally .smashed to pieces. It would appear that the unfortunate man was thrown by the impact clear of the train, landing heavily on the back of his head. The driver pulled the train up with great promptitude, and the injured man was conveyed on a stretcher to A'orinauby, where a doctor was sent for. When the train left he was unconscious, and but the slightest hope was entertained for his recovery. it is stilted that the driver of the train was hi no way blameable for the lamentable' occurrence.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81905, 18 December 1906, Page 2

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