EXPRESS DERAILED
EFFORT TO SAVE TRAIN FARMER'S PROMPT ACTION [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Wednesday "I must commend you for your quick thinking and presence of mind, and for your sensible and prompt attempt to stop the express. Most people would have stood and stared. It is a great pity that you were just a few seconds too late," said Mr. E. .Gilbertson coroner, in connection with the effort of Mr. William Howell, farmer, of Paraparaumu, to stop tho express which ran into a slip on August 30. Tho coroner found that Mr. Arthur Frederick Bush died from .hypostatic pneumonia, heart failure and shock following tlie accident. Mr. Howell, tho only eye-witness of tho derailment, told how while getting in his cows ho noticed what might be a slip 011 to the railway. Ho could see a scar above, but could not tell if the slip was on tho line. Witness said ho knew that tho express was due, and, fearing for its safety, was rushing to a signal-wire with an axe, intending to cut it and free the signal to tho danger position. Ho was just 50 yards short when tho express passed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 12
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