FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] IXVERCARGILL, Sunday. John Hinchey, farmer, Fernhill, Bentnore, was killed at Invercargill Station yesterday, being run over by a train by which he intended to travel home. There is a complete conflict of evidence as to how the affair occurred. Some say that Hinchey was on board of the train and fell off as it started, but a man who was on the platform adjoining that from which Hinchey fell says that he arrived late with two awkward parcels, then ran a few yards alongside of the train, making as if to throw the parcels aboard, then changed his intention, tucked the parcels under his right arm, and grasped a standard with his left hand. He was twitched off his feet and fell on the rails between the carriages. Hinchey, who was an elderly heary man, was fearfully mangled, and death was instantaneous.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9368, 27 November 1893, Page 5
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