RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2169, 20 April 1908, Page 2

RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. ALIGHTS FROM MOVING TRAIN. Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 18. A young man named Alfred Henry Coxhead, of Miranda, is now lying in a serious condition at tho Auckland District Hospital as the result of a fall from a train. Coxheail came to Auckland in the early part of this week, and had ail his upper row of teeth extracted. iHe left by the 10 o’clock express yesterday, bound for Drury, eu route for hts home. When the train was nearing Drury, Coxhead left his seat in a carriage and -walked out on to the platform. According to a fellow-passenger, lie appeared to step off the platform in an attempt to alight from the train. Finding ft was travelling faster than he imagined, he clutched the step and was dragged along for about half a chain, when weakness overcame him, and he dropped to tiio ground. When picked up ho was unconscious, and it was apparent that he had sustained serious injuries to the base of .liis skull. Ho was taken up to Drury, when lie was despatched to Auckland by the first train. Inquiries at tho hospital to-day elicited that lie is still unconscious and in a very serious condition. TRAIN RUNS INTO JIGGER. TWO SURFACEMEN BADLY HURT. AUCKLAND, April IS. Oil Thursday night, as the late train to Thames was approaching Matatoko, a serious accident happened. Two of the railway surfacemen, who wore pulling along a jigger, evidently did not notice a train following, with the result that they were run into by tlie train. As soon as the driver saw the accident, he pulled up, and found the men were badly injured. They were taken on board the train and then to Thames Hospital. The names of tho men are not obtainable ill Pae roa. Tho jigger on which they were l-idiug was smashed to pieces.