DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 7

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

MAN CUT TO PIECES

(By Telegraph —Press Association.)

TIMARU, Last Night. John Kyle, aged 70 years, employ " in the wool department at Par- • - Freezing Works met his death under most distressing circumstances on Saturday evening,* being literally cut to pieces at the Timara railway station by the second north-going express. As the express was steaming out' Kyle was noticed to attempt to alight from the platform of a second- i class carriage, the third from the guard's van, and immediately behind the dining car. He missed his footing, and the next instant was seen holding on to the carriage platform railing and being dragged along the platform. Then he slipped down between the train and the platform, still gripping the railing, four cars passing over his body. The train was stopped and the mangled body gathered together and taken to the morgue.

At an inquest held this morning a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. The evidence showed that had deceased let go the carriage platform railing when he jumped he would not have been dragged beneath the train. Kyle was a widower. Among his belongings was a bank-book showing deposits to the amount of £25 6s 3d in the Bank at Ngahauranga, near Wellington. ;