ACCIDENT AT TRENTHAM
.» TRAIN SEVERS SOLDIER'S LEG Wellington, This Day. When attempting to board a moving I train at Trentham station at 5.12 p.m. j yesterday. Sapper Leslie G. Swanson, a ! soldier, received critical injuries. It is j believed that Sapper Swanson had i safely boarded the train, but that while ! T was pulling out from the platform, , his hat blew off and h; jumped to re- | trieve it. In trying to reboard the 1 train he was dragged off the platform and his leg was run over and severed : by the last carriage. The injured man ' received immediate medical attention 1 and wr-i then rushed to the Welling- ( ton Hospital by an Army ambulance. I ’ His condition last night was reported) to be serious. \ < Hundreds of racegoers gathered on ' the platform were horrified witnesses ' of the accident. —P.A. V-T.-' I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 4
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