SENSATION IN CHRISTCHURCH.
MAN FALLS UNDER MOVING TRAIN.
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 beneath a carriage uninjuie<l- Three carriages had passed over him before the train was brought to a standstill.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 23
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