A RAILWAY FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1918, Page 5

A RAILWAY FATALITY.

RAILWAY EMPLOYEE LOSES HIS LIFE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, August 1, An accident occurred at Waipukurau to-night, whc.-eby a man named J. P. Kelly, railway employee, lost liis Deceased, who had been in Waipukurau for about ten days on railway departmental inquiry, boarded the Napier evening train at Takapau. On reaching Waipukurau, the train was shunted 5n to a side line to allow another train to pass. The unfortunate man, presumably, thought the train had stopped, and attempted to leave his carriage. It is thought that deceased missed his foothold and fell beneath the train. No one witnessed the tragedy, although the guard felt his van to bump over the body. Tho body was terribly mangled, the head being severed from the trunk. Deceased belonged to the Railway Department at Wellington, and had 43 years' service. He was recently chief clerk to the mechanical enginer. He wa« married, his wife residing in Wcl-' lington. He was about 60 years of age. An inquest will be held at Waipukurau to-morrow.