MAN KILLED IN FALL UNDER TRAIN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 106, 28 January 1939, Page 10

MAN KILLED IN FALL UNDER TRAIN

Accident At Hastings Railway Station VICTIM HAD JUST LEFT SANATORIUM Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, January 27. Falling between the tender of the engine and the first carriage of the Palmerston North-Napier express shortly after noon today, Mr H"" 1 ’ McHugh, married, Ngaio, M ellin»ton, was killed instantly. Mr. McHugh had been an inmate of the Pukeora Sanatorium and left that institution only this morning. . The express, which was runnin* five minutes late, was pulling out from the Hastings station platform when th fireman saw the lower portion of < man’s body projecting from under tin first carriage and being dragged aloi. o the permanent way. He immediately applied the brakes and the train was stopped after having travelled about 10 yards. ~ „ The body was lying between the front bogey wheels and the next pair of wheels‘of a passenger carriage. At the time the express was movin'' off, a mixed goods and passenger train for Waipukurau was standing on the first siding. It is assumed that Mr. MeHugli had intended to board this train. . . There was a large crowd ot people on the station-platform at the time of the accident, but Mr. McHugh was on the gravel strip between the two trains and, therefore, there were no eye-witnesses. CAR CAPSIZES OVER BANK Passengers Escape With Minor Injuries Dominion Special Service. PALMERSTON N„ January 27. Coming round a bend tonight two miles and a half on the Feilding side.of Awahuri, a car driven by Mr Bruce Edwin Andrews, Palmerston North, skidded, hit a telephone pole and capsized down were four passengers: Mr. Malcolm Mexted Greer, Mr John Simpson Anderson, Miss Gwenith Ida Vridge, an Miss Gwendolyne Ashworth. Iwo ot them received slight cuts. The car was damaged extensively. SPECTACULAR SMASH | Cars Collide, Then Strike Same Fence Dominion Special Service PALMERSTON N., January 27. A spectacular collision occurred at the intersection of Fitzherbert Avenue and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North, " at about midday today, between cars driven by Mr. Harold Basil Webster, Palmerston North, who was travelling down the’Avenue toward the bridge, and Mr. Ivan Joseph Buckland,- who was driving along Ferguson Stree.t toward Terrace End' Neither driver was hurt seriously but Mr. Webster, it is stated, was knocked unconscious for a period. The ears were badly damaged. After the collision both cars mounted the footpath ami crashed into a fence. Two wheels on the left side of Mr. Buckland’s car were smashed and other parts crumpled severely and the vehicle missed hitting a power pole bv the barest margin. Mr. Webster's car crashed broadside on into the same fence about 15 yards ahead of the other car and sent broken palings flying against a house, the occupants of which were considerably startled. The vehicle came to rest parallel with the inside of file fence and was almost hidden from sight by the few yards of palings left standing. A big crowd was attracted by the noise of the collision. car and bus collide Dominion Special Service. PALMERSTON N„ January 27. Shortly after 11 o'clock this morning a collision occfirred in Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, between a motor-car, driven by Mr. Henry Field. Penny’s Line, Sanson, and a bus, driven by Mr. L. W. Levett, Feilding. Mrs. Field, who was accompanying her.husband, was cut by flying-glass, ami had to be attended to by a doctor. There was only one passenger in the bus at the time of the