A TRAIN ACCIDENT.
MINER COMES TO GRIEF. Ar. accident, wliieli might 'easily have been attended %yith more serious consequences, occurred on the rail" way line between/Pigeon. Bush and Featherston last evening. ' A man, named Patrick Hickey, who stated that he was a West Coast miner, and who was, apparently suffering from the effects of over-conviviality, fell frow .the platform of one of the carriages when the mail train was travelling at about thirty miles an hour. The train backed a considerable disr tance to him tip'/.and it \V&§ found that the only injury sustained wa|v-,a . rather badly sprained ankle, was brought to -Mastertoii, and was'me* at the station by Constable Dunn, wlio put him in the ambulance brougham, -in which he was conveyed to the Hospital. ''
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 5
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126A TRAIN ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 5
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