RAILWAYS FATALITY
GUARD KILLED IN YARDS AT THORNDON.
AFTER GIVING STARTING SIGNAL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day.
Edward Furness, a railways guard, aged 39, of 35 Thorndon Quay, was killed outright in the Thorndon Railway Yards at about 6.25 this morning. Mr Furness was an ex-Royal Navy man, whose wife lives in England. He served during the war as a leading telegraphist. He was on a stock train bound for Petone. It was waiting for the signal" to proceed, and, as is customary, the fireman waited for the guard to give the signal to go after the lights had changed. The fireman saw Mr Furness give the signal, the train moved off and that was the last seen of Mr Furness alive. His van was about the middle of the line of trucks. The driver of another locomotive in the yard noticed that one of the rear trucks was derailed and blew three or four blasts on his whistle. The stock train stopped and the driver and fireman went back for the guard. They could not find him in his cab and his body was discovered behind the train, the last ten trucks apparently having passed over it. It is presumed that Mr Furness slipped after giving the signal. No one saw the accident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 8
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