Distressing Railway Accident At Gore.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 4

Distressing Railway Accident At Gore.

MAN. AND WOMAN KILLED. A distressing fa'ality occurred at Gore on Saturday evening last as the 9.30 express train was approaching the Gore Railway Station. A young man named George Urban Lindley, accompanied by a young lady named Annie Stewart, a daughter of David Stewart, farmer at Oroyden Siding, were driving along Mersey Street, and as the train approached the crossing-keeper called out to them to stop. Lindlej, who was driving, pulled up for a moment and then suddenly drove on, with the result that the train struck the fore part of the buggy, sending the horse on one side of the line, while the buggy and the two occupants were carried about 30yds. The spectators on the platform were horrified to see the man's body on the footplate of the engine, lying against the smokebox. As soon as the train drew into the station it was found that Lindley was quite dead. It was stated that the electric light lamps on either side of the crossing were not lighted , and neither the engine driver nor the fireman could have seen the buggy as they swept round the curve over the crossing. Miss Stewart lingered until 7 o'clock next morning. Both of the deceased were 26 years of age.