FATAL FALL FROM A TRAIN
A Girl Crushed to Death
As the Wellington-Mastertou train was drawing up to the Woodside Railway Station last night a young girl named Florence Owen, a second class pa-aenger, attempted to alight from a carriage. One wheel of the bogey carriage passed over her body high up, and she was crushed to dcinli instantly. Miss Owen had been employed ns a lady help at the bou e of Mr Welsh .1, the Fi atherston sfationmastcr, and wi; proceeding to Greytown, it is believed, to take up a similar po it'ou in the homo of Mr J. B. Nico). Mr James Ifodden, a passenger to Dal< field, saw the girl leavo the carriage and go out on to the platform with a sewing machine in her hands. Then he saw lie full, and as -non hi pos-ihlc informed the guard, who wont and found her lying quite dead. The body was taken to Groytown, whero an inquest will he held. The body was nut cut about at all, hut badly crushed, the wheel passing over the chest. Mr John Owen, postmaster of Kiniiarii, is a brother of the deceased, and it i: understood that her mother resides in Wellington,—N.Z. Times.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume VI, Issue 709, 14 October 1898, Page 4
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204FATAL FALL FROM A TRAIN Pahiatua Herald, Volume VI, Issue 709, 14 October 1898, Page 4
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