Shocking Train Accident at Christchurch.
Per Press Association. ChristGhurch, May 7. I^ear IJinHs's station, Samuel Chesson, a fireman on the southern express, was firing up, a d standing on one foot on the engine of the pther tender. Suddenly the coupling panted and Qhe-sgon fejl, The wkoh train passed aver- him, mang-ling him dreadfully, ijig nepk was broken, and his ngh,t hapd and left foot cut off. lj c was a sjngle man, twenty years of age, and lived at Timaru.
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Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 258, 9 May 1883, Page 2
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81Shocking Train Accident at Christchurch. Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 258, 9 May 1883, Page 2
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