Elderly Man Walks Into Moving Train
TWO ENGINES AND CARRIAGES PASS OVER HIS BODY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Fatal injuries were suffered by Samuel Taylor, aged 78, at Ellerslio railway station when lie walked into a workers' train as it steamed into the station from the direction of the Otahuhu workshops. Although the driver of tho leading engine applied the emergency brake as soon us lie saw what was likely to happen there was insufficient time and two engines anil several carriages passed over Taylor’s body before tho train pulled up. Deceased had been in the habit or taking a short cut to Ellerslio township across the line. He was taking a message to the township and apparently he did not observe tho approaching train as he clambered over the top of the embankment and started to walk across the single track alongside the platform. The train drawn by two locomotives carried about 400 workmen from the railway workshops at Otahuhu.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 6
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