SHOCKING FATALITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 27 January 1908, Page 5

SHOCKING FATALITY.

TRAIN CRASHES INTO BUGGY. MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. GORE, January 26. A distressing fatality occurred on Saturday evening as the 9.30 express train was approaching the Gore railway station. It appears tint a young man named' Geo. Urban Lindley, accompanied by a young lady, named Antiie Stewart, daughter of David Stewart, farmer, of Croyton siding, were driving along Mersey street, and as the train approached the crossing the keeper called out to them to stop. Lindley, who was driving, pulled up for a moment between the fiourmill and the main line, and then suddenly drove on, with the result that the train struck' the forepart of the buggy, sending the horse to one side of the line, while the buggy and Miss Stewart were, carried on about thirty, yards. When the train drew into the station the spectators on the platform were horrified to see a man's body on the foptplate of the engine, lying against the smoke-box. Lindley was quite dead. _ It is stated that the electric light lamps on either crossing were not lighted, and neither the driver nor the fireman had seen the buggy as they swept round the curve over the crossing. Miss Stewart lingered until six o'clock this morning and then died. Both deceased were 26 years of age.