ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILWAYS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4949, 27 April 1903, Page 5

ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILWAYS.

MR W. T. L. TRAVERS BADLY INJURED. MISHAP AT LOWER HUTT STATION An accident occurred at the Lower Hutt railway station about 7.4 d last evening, hy which Mr W. T. L. Travers, tbo well-known barrister and solicitor, had one of his legs broken, and was cut about the faces

It appears Mr Travers wont to the station to accompany a lady who was leaving by the 7.45 train for Wellington. Ho ace impanied his friend into a_ carriage, and remained with her until the train started to move. Then, in alighting from'the moving car on to the platform, Mr Travers knocked against the guard, who was keeping tho bystanders away from the train, and, staggering, fell between We platform and the train. A cry was raised, and the driver at once brought the train to a standstill. On being picked up Mr Travers was found ■to he badly injured, hut he was perfectly conscious and self-possessed. Two police constables, who were at the station at the time, had the injured gentleman removed on a stretcher to his i csiclenoo ut Lower Hu it— Doctors Hamilton, Purdy and Valintine were in tho meantime summoned, and lost no time in attending to their patient. Later Dr Cell ins arrived from Wellington.

It is understood that the injiry to Mr Travers’s right leg is very serious, and it was decided last night that an amputation was necessary.

A FIREMAN KILLED AT FEA-

THERSTON. PRESS ASSOCIATION. . MASTERTON, April 26. A goods train of twenty waggons, which left Masterton at 8.35 on Saturday evening, ran into a horse at the Cemetery crossing,' near Foatherston, Tho engine and sis waggons were derailed. Tho Westinghouse brake then brought tho train to a standstill. The driver. Heard, was stunned and badly shaken. Tho fireman, Harry Fee, was pinned under-the oab of the engine. The gauge glass burst, and ho was seriously scalded by escaping steam. Both men were brought to Masterton by special train at abcr.it three o’clock this morning. Fee. who was unmarried, was taken to the hospital, and ho died there at 11 o’clock to-day. Heard as confined to bed, but is not seriously hurt. . . Tho guard (Towers) was not injured. Tho line is clear.