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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 8 May 1911, Page 7

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TERRIBLE RAILWAY FATALITY. BY TELEGRAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, May 8. John Kyle, aged 70 years, employed in the wool department at Pareroa Freezing Works, met his death under most distressing circumstances on Saturday evening, being literally cut to pieces at Timaru railway station by the second north-going express. As the express was steaming out Kyle was noticed to attempt to alight from the top platform of a second-class carriage, the third from the guard's van, and immediately behind the dining car. He missed his footing, and for the next instant he was seen holding on to the carriage platform railing and being dragged along the platform. He then slipped down between the train and the platform, still gripping the railing. Four cars passed over his body. The train was stopped and the pieces of the mangled body gathered and taken to the morgue. At the inquest held this morning a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. The evidence showed that had deceased lei go the~ carriage platform railing when he jumped, he would not have been dragged beneath the train. Kyle was a widower. Among his belongings was a bank book showing deposits to the amount of £25 6s 3d in the bank at Ngahauranga, near Wellington.