TRAIN TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 4

TRAIN TRAGEDY.

DEATH AT A CROSSING. MQUXT ALBERT COLLISION, MARRIED MAX KILLED. A train dashed into a motorcycle and side oar it Roalyn Terrace crossing at ton nVlo-.'k yesterday morning and killed a married man named William Stanley MfDow.-ll and severely injured James MoS»cency. TV croWinjr at which the fatality occurred i- midway between Mount Albert and Mornin?sid<\ and has always been TPgardoil a? a dangerous one, as its approach is obstructed by trees and j buildings. TV train which ran down | the motor vphieln was bound from I Auckland to Svvanson. and was travelling at. about thirty mile? an hour when approaching Eo.-lyn Terrace, blowing the whistle. Immediately the drive ■ saw the motor, j ist s he applied the cmeracnoy brake*, but the collision was unavoidable and the side car was struck when it was . almost dear of the line. Machine and occupants were hurled against a. fence. , Mr. McDowell's fkul! was fractured and he died almost immediately and Mr. ■ MrSweeney sustained a. terrible shaking and had liis leg badiy cut beneath the § left. knee. j Tlie unfortunate man who was Killeu leave? a widow and two young children. He was a tinsmith and had been in Ulhealth for some time. He had been un.ler treatment, in an Epsom hospital and was on his way from there to visit his wife at Grey Lynn when he called on Mr. McSweeney's brother. The latter wai gut duel Mr. McSweency offered Mr. McDowell a ride in his side car a= tar Bt% the cit.v. A ftronft wind was blowing at the time of the collision, and it is said that this prevented the motorists hearing tlie train , * whistle. Tlie side car was wrecked but the cycle itself was not very badly damaged. The train pulled un in about its own length. i An inquest was opened this morning I at the Morgue and adjourned after evidence of Identification had been taken. ,