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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9508, 8 May 1911, Page 5

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DISTRESSING RAILWAY FATALITY

AT TIMARU.

AN ELDERLY MAN'S END,

(Per Press , association.)

TIMARU, May 8.

. John Kyle, aged 70; years, employed in the wool department of the Pareroa freezing works, met his death under most distressing circumstances on Saturday evening, being literally cut to pieces at the Timaru railway station by the second north-going express. As the express was steaming in Kyle was noticed attempting to alight froin tho top • platform of a second-class carriage, the third from the guard's van and immediately behind tho dining car.' Ho missed his footing, and for the next instant he was seen holding oil to tho' carriage platform railing and being dragged along the platform, Then he slipped down between tho van and tho platform, still gripping tho railing, Four cars passed over his body. The train was stopped, and tho pieces of tho mangled body were gathered and taken to the morgue. At the inquest held this morning a verdict of accidental death was returned, with no blame attachable to anyone.' The evidence showed that had deceased let go tho earriago platform railing when ho jumped he would _ not have been dragged beneath the train. Kylo was a widower employed in the wool department of the Pareroa freezing works. Among his belongings was a hank book showing deposits to tho amount of £25 6s 3d in the bank at Nga,hauranga, near Wellington.