RAILWAY ACCIDENT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTHURCH, Sunday.
When the express train from the South came in half-an-hour late last night, a rumour spread that a man had been killed by it at Rolleston. Fortunately this turned out to be incorrect. It appears that when the train pulled up at. Rolleston some passengers informed the guard that a man had fallen off the train, and a search party went back to look for him, and the express came on to town. They found a man named Patrick Coffee, a labourer from Timaru, lying alongside the line groanjng. They carried him to Rolleston Junction, and telegraphed to town for a special train, which went out in charge of the Ashley goods ag-ent, and brought the man to town. On being taken to the hospital he was found to be suffering from a bad fracture of the elbow of the right arm. Coffee remembers nothing about the accident until he found himself off the train, being much under the influence of drink.
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Auckland Star, Issue 23, 28 January 1901, Page 5
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