SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 3

SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY.

TWO MEN KILLED.

Adelaide, April 24. A tebkible accident occurred on the railway at the Grand Junction Crossing, between Port Adelaide and Allerton. A young lady named Agnes Peterson and a youth named, Richard Gill were being amen home in a two-horse vehicle by a cabman named Richard Davis. Aa the vehicle drew up to the line a train dashed through on the down line. Immediately afterwards Davis whipped upr the horses and commenced to cross the line. He had nob noticed the approach of a train on the opposite line, nor had he aeon the warning given to him by the gatekeeper. Unheeding, he drove the horses onto the line, and ab the same instant the locomotive of the fast speeding train dashed into the vehicle and killed the lad GiHj the driver (Davis) and ono of the horses. Davis'a body was found a hundred yards away. Gill was picked up and convoyed to the hospital, where he subsequently died, while Miss Peterson was found in a huddled heap amongst tho debris of tho vehicle. She sustained a fractured leg, a fracture of the left shoulder, and other injuries, from which she is nob expected to recover. At an inquasb held on the bodies of Davis and Gill yesterday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, tho jury recommending the railway authorities to erect gates at the crossing.