RUN OVER BY A TRAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 2

RUN OVER BY A TRAIN

MAN HAS BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DWEDIN, 22nd March. Kun over., at the Battray, street railway crossing.this.morning, by the 10.25 train to Mosgiel, a man named Robert Wilson had both legs cut off about the knee, and received head injuries. ' He died in the hospital at 11.40. He was fifty-six, years of age, and a married man. From the statements of witnesses, it seems, that the train was moving out at a steady pace, the warning bells rang, and the crossing-keeper was carrying out his duty of signalling the traffic, but the man did not heed the bell. One person states that he saw deceased crouched on the line in front of tire oncoming engine, and another man said he saw him just as he fell forward beneath it. The ambulance was summoned promptly, and the nan removed to the hospital. Blood transfusion was carried out. without avail. He had not long been discharged from hospital. An inquest was opened at the hospital this afternoon....