FATAL ACCIDENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 7

FATAL ACCIDENT

TAUMARUNUI, May 26. A fatal accident occurred on the Taringamatu Company's timber line close to the Taringamatu railway station yesterday at 3 p.m. Frederick Drew, aged' 36. and single, was driving a train of about eleven timber waggons from the timber yards to the station and was assisted by T. Spence, as fireman. When within a quarter- of a mile of the station the engine lan off the line and the locomotive overturned. Dre^w v.*-as pinned under the .-engine and his leg was badly damaged When the injured man was released he was semiconscious, but died in half T»n hour. Spence was badly bruised on the beat, an-d body, but was otherwise i.^Kujui-ed.