Killed at Otahuhu

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 8, 28 May 1914, Page 5

Killed at Otahuhu

YOUNG WOMAN'S AWFUL EXPERI. ENOE, l SEES HER MOTHER KILLED AND CHILD INJURED. |1 UNDER A MOVING (TRAIN. Jiy Telograph—Pre» AssooiatioE, ,:jj| Auckland, Last Night. - A sad fataJSty occurred at Otahoh# Js railway station at aboult 0 p.m. to-dujr, 'Lw Annie Aquilla Aukett, aged s<i, wife of JS A-'iretl Autatt, a storekeeper, living is Great vSouth Road, Otahuhu, losing fa or life thiough falling beneath a train, and 'if! her gTiunlda.ugJiver, DorcltJvy Thjelms J® Aukett, a child of three, beinyi so sexiousfy injured tiuit iher life is despaired Tlio 'Main Trunk express from Wei- ■ luigton was running late, owing to diaorganisation in the swviice caused by the tM accident nt Wlwngamarino in the morning. Mrs Aukcttt and her' grandchild, M- jg conrpanicd by the latter'* mother, Mri *"0 Aukett, junr., were (passengers by tilt l 3§ express from Frankton. The stoppled «,t Otohuhu for abouit two nun:'' utcs. Just as it was about to start ' again, the two women appeared to have . ,1 realised that they wore at 'their dag. tinatfon, and proceeded to alight The '4s younger woman stepped otft ion to the "3 station platfonn safely, but licr mother-Vji in-law wna some second)! in following jteSa her, and by the time slie was prepared to leave tho train with tho child in her ■ "3 arms it in motion, and had, aa a x matter of fact, proceeded' several yards. ' ] Mrs Aukott, Bear., was twisted round, ■ and fell with her granddaughter between * i ;';| tsho train and the platform. An outcry was raised and tlbe train was brought to a standstill, but not before five or six wheels had passed over tile unfortunate woman and the ■ child. ■■* "i The egress came on to Auckland .with 1 the; injured. The woman expired on the way to the hospital. Both iher legs had i' been run over, her aim waf broken, and ' 5 she had also sustained injuries to her head and face. The child had boith her feet cut off above the ankles, and was ' in a very precarious condition when she was admitted to the hospital. Very little hope of her recovery was enter- . taineil late last nighlfc..