MAN ON THE LINE.
A SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WANGANUI, this day. Quick action by Guard Myers averted a tragedy at Patea last evening. A goods train from Hawera was the first to draw into the station last evening, and a passenger, carrying a mvag, alighted from a second-class carriage, and walked on to the rail just as the New Plymouth express dashed into the station. The man seemed muddled, and, though many persons yelled to warn him, he stood right in the way of the onruahing express, as if paralysed. With great presence of mind Guard Myers raced from the guard's van of the good* i train, and amidst the tensest excitement, ' succeeding in reaching the man and snatching him from what appeared certain destruction. The driver of the express applied the brakes with promptitude as soon as he saw the man on the line, but, even with this, had it not been for the prompt manner in which Guard Myere acted, nothing could have saved the stranger from mutilation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 4
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173MAN ON THE LINE. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 4
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