DRAGGED MILES BY TRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 38

DRAGGED MILES BY TRAIN.

mM'S KEMARkiSfiB ESCAPE,

w -FkUiiig tieiweel the £nfl k tfitn wfii'cn Val i jfilt. lglTliff -. Xhe*#Sßit sSis station, Alfred Edward Johnson (61), br Snakes Lane, Woodford Green, was carried °, v :?^. tllre e miles; to Oilgwell Lane stStion; blln-ln» to tfle ldwSf foofboHS: . reau£ he laid, as lie lay In Sed badly battered. "I trlM to open the door of. tie carriage, but cßfild not do bo. I do fi&t remember whether. wkJ ifl of 28t; of ripw I cafie t8 Ml ofi.tS tfife iolver foofbßAr3, to which -1 lomlg mylell cUnsiS|; with my- hack to the line atta iace towards the engine.. "i cilieg Snt t8 tie pksSefiggfs wio vfere at jtfie; wlfido*: ,t8 6tßg the tfiln: They slid tfie'l had tflea if pliiSfig the com: mtrnielltlbn -cord, bnt were not successful. I cltmt on hoping against hope tflaf 1 not §t«ke .tiie platiiJrm all I fiot: v> . "A porter at Chlgwell Lane got under the train and helped mc from the footboard, as my foot was jammed under a spring." PoiStlnl to a b'iFa in a cSR Sff; 3onnsßfi added:— -

"I was SHt^fif, tn&t "bird • when the accident happenlS. it was afterwards picked_ ( Tip on the line, apparently none 1 the worse."