SHOCKING FATALITY.
LOST SHOES CAUSE DEATH. YOUNG VICTORIAN KILLED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA. August -0. A remarkable accident occurred last Thursday week. It appears that a younir man. Thomas Alex. Watters, who hailed from Victoria, and who was an assistant cane inspector for the Colonial Sugar Rclining Company, lost a pair of shoes while travelling on the little "free" train, consisting of trucks of cane. As the little engine was about to start back. Watters decided to sit on the front of the buffers of the engine so that he could watch for his missing shoes. It was 4 a.m.. but the headlights gave suflicient illumination to scan the track. Suddenly Watters was seen by the engine driver to jerk off 011 to the .line, and, ere the train could be brought to a stand, the unfortunate voitmr fellow had been run over and killed. Only about a month before the accident his father had come over on a visit from Melbourne and had pressed him to come home, but without results.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 208, 3 September 1929, Page 5
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