FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE OTAGO CENTRAL LINE.
A sad accident, with fatal results, occurred on the Otago Central railway on Friday morning. Sirs Crichton, a passenger for Kckonga, was accompanied by lier grandson, Leslie Lye, aged four years and three months, son of Mr Josiah Lye, printer of the Otago Witness. As the train was about to leave Hindon, Mrs Crichton, who was on the platform of the carriage giving her grandson a drink of tea, made an attempt to enter the carriage holding the boy by the hand, but the sudden jerk of the train starting caused the little boy to be dragged out of her hand, and fall between tli3 carriage and the station platform. Mrs Crichton made a desperate effort to rescue the boy, even at the risk of her own life, but she was unsuccessful. The train was almost immediately brought to a standstill, and tho littb boy picked up between the rails. On examination it was found that life was extinct. The wheels of the last two carnages ha>l passed over the little fellow, and the body was badly mutilated, the head being crushed and one of the legs badly mangled.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 21
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