ACCIDENTS
RAILWAY WORKER KILLED STRUCK BY SHUNTING ENGINE "The Press” Special Service PALMERSTON NORTH, May 5. While engaged in shunting in the Palmerston North railway yards about 2.30 o’clock yesterday morning a worker was fatally injured. He was Mr Harold Edwin Seagar, aged 67, of 96 Cuba street. Mr Seagar was. standing on the hand-brake of a truck which was being shunted on to another line when he was struck by the tender of an engine which was coming across the points at .an angle. He received extensive injuries and was dead when he was picked up.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 8
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