MAN CUT TO PIECES.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. RUN OVER BY A TRAIN. C.BX TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WANGANUI, This Day. A fatal accident occurred at Gonville last evening on the. Castlecliff branch line of railway, when a man named, Andrew Bogle Tras ran over .by tho train and cut to pieces. The train was approaching Gonville station, when the engine-driver noticed something on the line a. few yards in front of ' the engine. He immediately applied the brakes, but the train passed over the objeci before being brought to a standstill. An arm and a leg were severed, and tho body was horribly mangled. The, victim was within a few yards of his .home, and evidently Hid not hear or see the approaching train.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7
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