WOMAN FALLS IN FRONT OF TRAIN
EXTRAORDINARY FATALITY. CUT TO PIECES BY ENGINE. PeT Press Association. HAWERA, Last Night. Apparently falling in front of a fast moving train Mrs. Gladys Ethel Evans, a young woman rosiding with her husband, W. EL Evans, at Hawera, was killed instantly on tho Turutnrn road level railway crossing half a mile from Hawera station at about ten o’clock this morning. The train was a mixed goods and passenger, travelling south from New Plymouth to Hawera. When about a quarter of a mile from the crossing,. the fireman and driver saw the woman standing alone at a side crossing. The whistle wag Bounded and it appeared the woman was waiting for the train to pass. As it approached, she comqaenced to move along the cattle stop, steadying herself with her hand on the guard rail but just as tho engine reached the cattle stop, she appeared to fall across the rail directly beneath tho catcher. Tho body was practically cut to pieces, the upper portion being mutilated almost beyond recognition. Identification was established through a Toceipt found in her clothing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6852, 6 March 1929, Page 7
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