STRUCK BY TRAIN
LINESMEN INJURED. ACCIDENT ON WAIRARAPA LINE I ■n.v Telegraph—Pi «-si AsstH-ialion » WELLINGTON. This Day. Struck by a train on the Wairarapa line between the Summit and Kaitoke 'shortly after 6 pm. on. Saturday, two railway service linesmen travelling on si motor trolley, received injuries necessitating their removal to hospital, They were: — Mr Frederick William Lucas, single aged 41, Kaitoke, scal|> wound.- and head injuries. Mr Patrick Brosnahan. single, aged 2£‘, Kaitoke fractured right leg and scalp wounds, The men were struck by a special train which had left The Summit at j. 55 p.m. with passengers who were being taken buck to Featherston fol-• lowing the blocking of the line nt Cross Creek by the derailment of ;m tmgim) tender. The mjured men Yt ere taken by tram !«• Up-pei Hutt and from there by the Free Ambulance to hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 7
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