STRUCK BY BRIDGE
ENGINE-DRIVER ON TRAIN
UNCONSCIOUS ON TRUCK
(By Telegraph.—Press Association)
TAIHAPE, Sundav
Believed to have been struck by an overhead bridge when lie was up on the tender of his engine about a mile north of Hunterville in the early hours of Saturday morning, the driver of a goods train, Mr Albert Ernest Rowley, of Tailiape, married, was thrown to the track and suffered a fractured skull and severe head injuries.
The train had travelled a distance of about two miles before the fireman, Mr George Squires, of Taihape, noticed that his companion was missing. The fireman immediately stopped the train and lie and the guard Mr Mark Siddle, also of Tailiape, went ltuek along the track in search of the missing man. Mr Rowley was discovered lying unconscious on the side of the track near the overhead bridge.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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141STRUCK BY BRIDGE Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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