ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 6

A CCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A MAORI KILLED AT WAIKANAE. The danger of the practice of attempt- - ing to hoard trains while in motion Avas' exemplified at the Waikanae raihvay station this morning. The train for' Wellington, Avas just starting Avhen a Maori named Teßene emerged from the people Standing on the plattorm and attempted to get on to the train.- The ticket clerk succeeded in preventing him, but Ite made another attempt, and' getting behind .Guard Herdman, caught hold of the handrail and. made a spring. The train was by that time moving at a smart pace, and To Rene missed his footing and fell under the carriage. The spring hit him in the back, and before the* driver, in response to the guard's signal, cbuld stop the train, two oars and a van had passed over him. Both legs Avere shockingly mangled, and he had also received a severe bIoAV on tho head. The poor fellow was placed in the guard's van and made as comfortable as possible under the circu'itstances. .The , authorities at the Porirua asylum Wro communicated Avith by telephone in order that a> doctor might ,meet the train at that place. Te Rene, however, died shortly after the train left Padkakariki, and ths remains Arere taken i off the train at Porirua, Avhere an in- \ quest Avill be held, lie Rene Avas about •'40- years of age, and lived at Porirua.