MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY TRAGEDY.
FELL BETWEEN TWO CARRIAGES,
TERRIBLE MUTILATION
PALMERSTON N., April 10
Ellen Louise Oates, of Christchurch, single, aged 26, was on her way with her mother in the main trunk train from Wellington to Palmerston, and when about two miles north of Otaki she went on to the platform and fell between two carriages.
Her body was terribly mangled and one leg was severed. Death was instantaneous.
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Northern Advocate, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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