HEROIC FIRST AID
DOCTOR AND ASSISTANT r*/ iy>p- jI i ■' ] WOMAN STRUCK BY TRAIN ORDEAL UNDER CARRIAGE [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Oct. 30 With their bodies pressed close to the sleepers, a doctor and an ambulance oflicer lay beside a critically injured woman at Regent's Park station, near Sydney, last Friday night while a train which had knocked her down was shunted over them. The victim was Mrs. Eleanor McKenzie, aged 68. Her right leg was severed below the knee and her right arm at the shoulder. The police were unable to discover how she came to be struck by the train, although they ascertained -that the front carriage had swept her to the permanent way. The driver, David Lewis, applied the brakes of the train and stored it in a remarkably short distance. Two wheels passed over Mrs. McKenzie, and she ivas unconscious when the Parramatta ambulance and Dr. J. Manion, of Auburn, arrived. It was practically impossiblo to reach tho injured woman, as the top of the platform projected outward. Dr. Manion and an ambulance officer slid down between two carriages and crawled along tho permanent way to where the woman was lying iif agony. They dressed her injuries as best they could in the cramped position, and prepared to lift her to the platform, but it was not possible to move her in the narrow space.
A hasty consultation with railway officials was held. Mrs. McKenzie was in great pain, and Dr. Manion and the ambulance officer decided to hold her tightly while tho train drew aheadThey crouched in a cramped position while the wheels of the carriages ground past them a few inches away. They were beneath the carriage with the injured woman for about a quarter of an hour. Their heroic efforts were in vain. Mrs. McKenzio died a few hours later in hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 16
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