BOTH LEGS SEVERED
EfJGINE DRIVER SUPS FROM COAL DUMP [Per United Press Association.! TAUMARUNUI, May 3. A distressing accident occurred at 8 o’clock this morning at the railway coal dump, just north of Rangiroa level crossing, when Walter F. England, engine driver, aged thirty-seven, of Te Kniti, a man with a large family, had both legs severed at the ankle. The engine was coaling at the time at the dump. England, standing on the coni heap beside the train, gave the fireman the signal to move on, and as tho train moved be slipped and fell beneath the wheels. The injured man was token to hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 6
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106BOTH LEGS SEVERED Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 6
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