SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9423, 22 July 1889, Page 5

SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A MAN CUT TO PIECES.

[BY TKUXiRAMI. — I'UKSS ASSOCIATION".] Waitara, Sunday. A fatal accident occurred on the railway line, between Wai!am and Sentry Hill, at. about 5.40 on Saturday evening, when a man named Alexander Brown was Cut to pieces at the Richmond Road crossing. The engine-driver of the Wai turn train noticed some dark object, lying across the line, but it was impossible to stop the train in time, although the breaks were put down. When the body wa« picked up it was literally cut to pieces, and quite unrecognisable. The deceased was identified by document-* found in his pockets*. He was a mill-owner at X git ire, and was on his way home from New Plymouth. He gob out of the train at Sentry Mill, and it went oIF without him. The pointsman states that he noticed the deceased, and asked him to wait for the hext. train, but he said lie would walk on some distance. It appears In; walked as far as the first crossing, whj-i it is supposed hi? foot \va< caught in the cattle stop, and he could not jr«t away. The train shortly afterwards came up, but could not be stop]i?d in time to save him. A., inquest was held at. Waitara this afternoon, when the following verdict was returned: —"That deceased, on the 20th July, was trespassing, probably inadvertently, by straying oIV tho road in the dark on the railway line between Sentry Hill and Waitara. when he was overtaken by the 0.10 p.m. train at. Sentry Hill and killed, nndtnerc is not any blame attached to the railway official , ?."