RUN OVER BY TRAIN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 120, 19 May 1909, Page 5

RUN OVER BY TRAIN.

INVERCARGILL, May 19. Three men named William Fyfe, John Pratt and John Henderson, while walking along the railway line from Bluff to Ocean Beach, were overtaken by a special train. ; All the men were thrown into the sea. Fyfe's skull was badly fractured and. both legs smashed. He died an hour afterwards. Pratt sustained a broken leg. Henderson escaped with ,bruises. Fyfe> who was a wool-classer, leaves a wife and; large family at Kakanui. A severe gale was blowing at the time. . All the men were sober.