GUARD KILLED
FATAL ACCIDENT ON OPUNAKE LINE .
COW DERAILS FOUR TRUCKS.
(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
ELTHAM, This Day. Last evening a serious tragedy occurred at a shallow cutting on the new Opunake railway line, opened last week, when Frank Forman, aged 50, a guard on the workers' train, was killed and four workers injured. The train was returning with workers to the base at Kapuni, when a cow jumped on to the line without warning. Guard Forman, as was his usual procedure, was standing up in an open truck, with the workmen seated. He gave the warning signal, but the cow was only a few feet off, and the train could not be pulled up. The first six trucks were derailed, and Forman was thrown under one of the trucks. He_ was pinned under the wheels, and "when dug out succumbed to severe injuries.
The workmen were thrown out, but their injuries were not severe. The injured men were: W. H. Green, injuries to head; J. Martyn, injuries to head and limbs; C. Long, injuries to ankle; P. Sexton, injuries to fingers.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 6
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