FATAL ACCIDENT.
RAILWAY PORTER KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A goods porter named J. Chapman, about 27 years old, who was on relieving duty at Pctone station, met his death in a shocking manner a little after 7 o'clock to-night. While engaged in shunting he slipped, and fell under a moving train, being frightfully mangled. Both legs and arms were almost severed, and his skull "was fractured. Death must have been instantaneous.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 18, 21 January 1916, Page 7
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