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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7812, 3 June 1909, Page 1

A remarkable story of a railway employee who died because he believed that he was freezing to death, is reported from, livasnoiavsli, m. Russia, j While engaged, m cleaning a luggage van on the Trans-Siberian Hue, Michael Staritsky. fell asleep. When he awoke two hours later the train was m motion and the van door locked. There was no method of communicating; with any'other- part °l the train, and Staritsky was seized with the fear that he would be frozen before the train .stoppw'. The following broken sentences m Russian chalked on the floor of the van show the tortures which the unfortunate man suffered m imagination : "1 am freezing fast .... my right leg .... now my left .... lumps of ice .... my last words perhaps .... my heart \$ kobhu : . . . the end," SUntsk" was''dead when .found"sit the nekt halting place two hours later. The temperature of the van was far above freezing point, an.d dfcath was gaiety <h*e to fript, 1