SENSATION IN CHRISTCHURCH
MAN FALLS UNDER MOVING TRAIN. EMERGES UNHURT. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 17. A sensation was caused at Christchurch railway station last evening when a man, in attempting to board the train for Lyttelton as it was leaving the platform, slipped and fell under he carriages. The alarm was given and the train was pulled up with a jerk. Porters rushed a stretcher to the scene, but to the surprise of everyone the man crawled from oencath a carriage uninjured. Three carriages had passed over him before the train was brought to a standstill.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20361, 19 March 1928, Page 10
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