RAILWAY ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT

FOUR AUCKLAND RECItUITS INJURED ONE SERIOUSLY. <■! TELEORAra— FREES ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 12th October. An accident, resulting in grave injuries to one of the Auckland recruits who left for Trentham to-day by a special troop train, serious injuries to another, and minor injuries to two others, occurred as the train was passing through Taupiri station at about 6 p.m. The names of the men hurt are : — Private Samuel M'Gee, dangerous injuries to right side of head. Alexander Hyland, serious laceration of left arm. Private Walter W. Chitty, minor jffijuries. Private Thomas Turner, mine* fes? juries. It appears the four men named $wr-n leaning out of the train at the time, ami were struck by the arm of a tablet" exchanger, which, for some unexplained reason, had failed to work. Hyland was standing on the platform of a carriage, and M'Gee was at a window of the same carriage. Both were leaning out, and were struck by the iron arm of the apparatus before they could draw back. The other two men are believed to have seen the danger in time to avoid serious hurt. M'Gee and Hyland were too seriously injured to continue the journey, and were taken off at Frankton Junction and conveyed to the Hamilton Hospital. M'Gee was unconscious and in an extremely grave condition, the nature of his injuries precluding much hope of his recovery. DEATH OF M'GEE. HAMILTON. This Day. Samuel M'Gee, aged thirty, a watersider, and an Auckland member of the Reinforcements draft which left Auckland for Trentham yesterday, was looking out of a window while the train was going through the Taupiri station, and struok his head against the tablet arm. Alexander Hyland, another trooper, who was waving his hand from one of the platforms, came in contact with the same obstacle, and sustained badly-lacerated muscles of his left forearm.; Both., were admitted to the Waikato Hospital. - M'Gee died at midnight.