Engine Driver Seriously Hurt
0 t [Special to “Northern Advocate ”] TAIHAPE, This Day. |4 The driver of a goods train, Mr. "Albert Ernest Rowley, of Taihape, was 1 thrown from his engine about a mile : north of Hunterville in the early hours /of Saturday morning, and suffered a /fractured skull and severe head in- " juries. He was-in a very serious con--5 tiilion at the Taihape Hospital last ’’night. ■ It is believed that Mr. Rowley v/as "struck by an overhead bridge when he was on the tender of his engine. The train had travelled a distance of about two miles before the fireman, Mr. George Squires, noticed that his companion was missing.The fireman immediately stopped the train, and he and the guard. Mr. Mark Siddle, went back along the track in search of the -missing man. Mr. Rowley was discovered lying on the side of the track near the overhead bridge.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1939, Page 3
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