TRAIN ACCIDENT
RECRUIT INJURED EN ROUTE TO' CAMP. A' reservist,' named David Lake, who left by the 8.30 a.m. train yesterday to join, the Thirty-first Reinforcements afc Trentham, met with a serious accident in the course of the journey. Lake fell sick in the carriage, and decided to go on the platform, and eventually sat down near the step. When tho train was between Kaiwarra and Ngahauranga he fainted, and fell off tho train, with the result that a carriage passed over on'a of his legs, severing it below the knee. Sorgt.-Major Holmes, who was on tho train, rendered first aid, and Dr. Pattie was quickly in attendance. Lake, who was suffering from shook, and was semiconscious, was removed to the Hospital v as speedily as possible by Constable Thompson, of the Thorndon Police tion. Tho Public Hospital reported last evening that Lako was progressing fairly woll<
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3121, 27 June 1917, Page 4
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