RAILWAY CADET KILLED.
RUN OVER BY TRUCKS. LEGS AND ONE ARM SEVERED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) STRATFORD, this day. Samuel Brown, aged 19, a railway cadet, was knocked down and run over by a rake of trucks at Hawera railway station last evening. It is thought that three trucks passed over him before he was thrown clear. Both his legs and one arm were practically severed, and, after receiving medical attention, he died in an ambulance. The nortli-bound express was pulling into the platform and Brown was returning from the goods shed to the station. He had to cross three sets of rails. On the first set were a number of covered •wagons, and after passing between two of these he jumped direetlv in the path of the oncoming rake of trucks. He 8 a son of Mr. S. Brown, a railway guard, ot £)unedin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 10
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