TROOP TRAIN ACCIDENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9174, 14 October 1915, Page 5

TROOP TRAIN ACCIDENT

DEATH OP SAMUEL McGEE. Press Association. HAMILTON, October 13. Samuel McvToe, aged thirty, a wafcer.sider, and an Auckland member of the reinforcements draft which loft Auckland for Trentham yesterday, was looking out of a window while tbo train was going through the Taupiri station, and struck his head against the tablet arm. Alexander Hyland, another trooper, who was waving his hand from one of the platforms, came in contact with the same obstacle, and sustained badlylacerated muscles of his left forearm. ■Both were admitted to the Waikato hospital. McGee died at midnight.

At the inquest on McGee, Hyland, the other injured man, said ho was standing on the platform of the carriage nest to tho engine, waving to people on the station, when he was struck by the tablet arm. On entering tho carriage ho found McGee lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The inquest was adjourned. The tablet in use at Taupiri was recently installed. It was of a now design, and was undergoing a trial. Two arms project, and when released one moves upwards and tho other downwards. The explanation given hy tho officials is that on the tablet arm being (truck by Hyland the steel work bent ■nd jambed against the wooden pillar, •id remained fixed. McGee struck the

,nt steel work, which remained a danger to the whole train.