A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
YOUNG GIRL KILLED
BY TELEGRAPH —PBEBB ASSOCIATION. ASHBURTON, July 21. A shocking accident occurred on the mid-day expiess from Christchurch by which passengers a young woman, whose name is at present unknown, and whose age is about 22, was cut to piece o . It seems that she was suffering from illness, and went out on to the carriage platform, from which she was seen to fall, apparently in a faint. Several carriages passed over her, and on the train being stopped life was found to be extinct. The body was fearfully mangled. A railway ticket, found where she fell, was for Orari. The body has been taken on to Timaru. ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9145, 22 July 1908, Page 5
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113A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9145, 22 July 1908, Page 5
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