TRAIN AND JIGGER COLLIDE
A SURFACEMAN INJURED,
(Bv Telegraoh-Boecial Correspondent.)
Carterton, October i. A special train convoying soldiers on leavo from Featherston Camp to Auckland this afternoon collided with a railway surfaceman named .Tolra Ollowci, who was on a railway jigger proceedin" in tho same direction as thojraiu. The accident happened on the Eketahuna side of tho tunnel. Owing to the curves in the line in this locality the nigger was not observed by the "pnedmer mUI it was with* a few yards of the enVinb. The brakes we immediately annlied. but it was too late to avoid an Sent. O'Dowd and the jigger .were thrown off the, line .and down a guy. O'Dowd received injuries to his head, W ho was taken on to Ekotakuna. where his wounds were attended to by rioter, who ordered his removal ton hosoTtiil. The injured man was brougtit Serton Hospital on the mail train where an operation was deemed news Sa '7ho jigger 4s badly wrecked. . O'Dowd was returning from Manga mahoe and the accident occurred only a few yards from where a gang was woiv iZ A fow minutes later there would lave been a clear line. O'Dowd is an Xly Mrried man with a xamily.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 4
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