RAILWAY CATASTROPHE.
TWO MEN KILLED BY TRAIN
Lima PRESS ASSOCIATIONS TIMARU, Jan. 3. As the second express from the south approached Temuka station last- evening a horse and drag containing two men was standing near Buxton’s store in the railway yard. The whistle of the engine caused the horsWto bolt, and it ran across the line in front cf the train. The engine struck a wheel, and smashed the drag to matchwood. The two men were 'carried a short distance, being killed and their bodies being mangled frightfully. Both were residents of Temuka. Their names are John McAuiiffe, laborer, and a widower with six or seven young children, and William Snell, a retired farmer with a family of grown men. Deceased were highly respected. The .Temuka station yard is admitted to be very dangerous. This is the fifth fatality there, and efforts to have a public crossing made near the site of the fatality will be renewed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3109, 4 January 1911, Page 4
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157RAILWAY CATASTROPHE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3109, 4 January 1911, Page 4
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