ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TRAP ACCIDENT ENDS FATALLY. By Telegraph.—Prcsi A-'soelatlon. Blenheim, Last Night. Thomas Johnson May, aged 67 years, a builder, and an old resident, was the victim of a trap accident and died two, hours later. A RAILWAYMAN MANGLED. Wellington, Last Night. News have just been received of a shocking railway fatality at the Summit station, near Cross Creek. About 3 ocloek the railway surfaceman, named Simpson A. Auld, was almost instantaneously. Auld had alighted from the down train and was crossing the lines to go to his house near by, but failed to notice another train backing from a siding, and was knocked down by it, Fiftpen waggons passed over his bodyl mangling if frightfully. Auld leaves'u widow and three children. The accident happened within about a hundred yard* of his home.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 4
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134ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 4
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