SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A NELSON RESIDENT KILLED. * LYTTELTON, Sunday. About 8 p.m. on Saturday an elderly Slady, Mrs Amelia Bisphan, wife of Mr George Bisphan, of Nelson, was run I over and killed alongside the railway platform at Lyttelton. Mrs Bisphan, who was staying with her brother, Mr Byron, bootmaker, of Lyttelton, left Christchurch at 7.35 p.m. by the special through steamer train with passengers for the Mararoa. On reaching Lyttelton, the train slowed down considerably, and Mrs Bisphan evidently attempted to alight at the eastern end of the platform, and fell under the carriage. She was killed instantly, and her body was shockingly mangled. Her chest was crushed in, and her left leg was completely severed by tho wheeis. At the inquest held this afternoon, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, there . — being no evidence to I show how the woman got under the I train.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1907, Page 4
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149SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1907, Page 4
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