TRAIN STRIKES JIGGER.
RAILWAYMAN KILLED. Per Press Association. TIMARU, Dec. 8. A fatal accident occurred on the railway here to-nigiht about a mile from town, when a goods train, travelling north, ran into a railway jigger on which David Maxwell, railway surfaceman, was returning home from his day’s work, and David Rennett, a freezing works’ employee, was riding as a passenger. The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. It is presumed that it was caused through the railway time-table having been altered this week. Maxwell forgetting that the line was not clear and his view of the train being obscured by flthe cutting. The driver of the train applied the emergency brakes, but was unable to prevent the collision. '
Maxwell suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and left arm and concussion, and subsequently died in hospital. Rennett suffered a broken elbow, and a severely bruised head. It is not expected that his injuries will prove fatal.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 10, 9 December 1926, Page 7
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158TRAIN STRIKES JIGGER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 10, 9 December 1926, Page 7
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