SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY.
CHILD ALMOST DECAPITATED. TRAIN PASSES OVER ITS NECK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GJSBORNE, Last Night. A shocking fatal accident occurred this evening, at the Te Kara karailway station, by which.. a little 1 girl named Norma. Phillips, aged 3$ year®, met an untimely fate. The little girl, with . its mother, boarded the train, at. Te Karaka with the object of going further out in the country towaa-ds the line's permanent terminus. Just prior to the train moving off, Sirs Phillips rusihed out of the carriage and on to the platform to recover a parcel which she had forgotten. Tthe little daughter followed her mother, and just reached the outer platform of the carriage wihen the train commenced to move. Tfe child was thrown out on to the way on the outside of tihe train, and the wheels passed over her neck, almost severing tine head from the body
The awful accident was not seen' by anybody, as the train was between tihe spectators and, tihe unfortunate victim. The child's mother
was frantic with grief. The father recently drew a. Government section at Otoko, and tihe family were about to make it their home.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10265, 17 June 1911, Page 5
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195SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10265, 17 June 1911, Page 5
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