OAMARU.
Monday.
A railway accident occurred here on Saturday night to a\man named «T. S. Arthur, who was killed. The particulars are as follows: —When the down train from Oamaru was due at 8 p.m., and was within 550 yards of the Lower Belt Station, the driver noticed that the engine passed over some.soft object,- but thought it was a stray sheep., The circumstance was reported to the station master, who sent a man to search. The messenger was horror struck to find the body of a man lying alongside the track nearly severed in two. Life, of course, was extinct; The deceased appeared about 26 years old, and had neither boots nor stockings nor coat ouv "tfrom the papers found on his person, his name was ascertained, and that he arrived from Glasgow in February per ship. Auckland. He had been working in Anderson's flour mill at Dunedin, and latterly at Kakanui. He came to Oamaru on Saturday morning, and got drunk, missed the return train, and evidently started to walk along the line, but missed his way, going north instead of south.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2600, 8 May 1877, Page 2
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184OAMARU. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2600, 8 May 1877, Page 2
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