RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
ONE MAN KILLED. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, this day. A shocking accident occuned last night on the Kaipara railway, opposite the Mt. Eden Gaol. Two men, Arthur Edward McKillop, an employee at the Newmarket railway workshops, residing at Mt. Eden, and John Warren, ganger, residing near Mt. Eden station, were going home as far as Mt. Eden station on a railway jigger, when they were caught at a bend in the line by the ordinary Helensvilie down train, which hail left Mt. Eden station and was on the down grade for Newmarket. The driver of the engine tried to pull up, hut dashed into the jigger. Warren, who was facing the) engine, tried to jump off, and escaped with slight injuries, but McKillop, who had his back to the engine, was badly smashed, and died in half-an-hour at the hospital. He leaves a wife and two children. Warren was so dazed by the shock that no intelligible account of the accident can be got from him, or explanation how he came to be on the line. It is supposed they risked getting to Mt. Eden railway station before the train.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8761, 27 February 1900, Page 2
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192RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8761, 27 February 1900, Page 2
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