THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.
The AA r aipawa Mail furnishes some additional particulars to those we received by telegram yesterday respecting the fatal accident to Mr Ben Smith. As tho train reached the part of tho bridge where deceased was, the driver of the train observed him reel and fall, as if overcome with nervousness at the nearness of the engine. As he fell, his head was struck by the engine, the shock hurling his body some few feet. The train was brought to a standstill very quickly, and Sergeant O'Malley, and Mr Chalmers, the permanent way inspector, who were both on board the train, immediately got out. Mr Smith was then not quite dead, his pulse beating faintly, but he was quite unconscious, and had never stirred after being struck. Sergeant O'Malley sent off for medical assistance, and Dr. Todd was quickly in attendance, but only to find life just extinct. A stretcher was procured, and the body taken to an outbuilding at the rear of tho Empire Hotel, where it awaits an inquest, to bo held this day. The appearance of deceased's injuries seems to show that the immediate cause of death was fracture of tho base of the skull, caused by being struck by the engine on the neck and. jaw, but nothing positive on this head can be said until after the inquest.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3637, 9 March 1883, Page 2
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