KILLED AT CROSSING.
CHILD IN PERAMUBLATOR. Her Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 12. A child two and a-half years of age was killed in tragic circumstances at a level crossing at Waitara to-day. The engine of a train struck the perambulator in which the child was being wheeled and threw it into a cattlestop. The child's skull and an arm were fractured, and death followed shortly afterward. The victim was Mona Telfar, daughter of Mr and Mrs D. P. Telfar, of Waitara. She was being wheeled in the perambulator by her sister, aged four. The perambulator was on the- line when the older girl saw the locomotive coming. She tugged at the-perambulator, but apparently was not strong enough to pull it off the line. She ran to avoid the train and the engine struck the perambulator. The injured child was taken in the guard’s van to the station nearby, and a doctor was summoned, but the child was so seriously injured that death ocucrred shortly afterward.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 3
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