SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 26 January 1911, Page 5

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

MAN KILLED BY A TRAIN

BODY BADLY MANGLED

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Jan. 26

j Mr H. M. Lyon, late secretary of the Underwriters' Association, and formerly for many years secretary of the Wellington Racing Club, was killed at tlie Trentham station yesterday afternoon. He had tried to get up on the platform from the line as the train was approaching, but being incapacitated through a slight physical deformity he was: placed at a disadvantage, and wasiunable to mount the platform before he' was knocked down by the train. The body was badly mangled, becoming entangled in the bogie of the tending car. Lifting jacks from the engine had to be used .to extract the body. The deceased was 59 years of age, and leaves a widow, four sons, and one daughter.