RUN OVER BY TRAIN
ELLERSLIE FATALITY FATE OF AGED MAN (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Fatal injuries were suffered by Samuel Taylor, aged 78, at Ellerslie railway station, when lie walked into a workers' train an it steamed into the .station from the direction of the Otahuhu workshops. Although the driver of the leading engine applied .the emergency brake as soon as he saw what was likely to happen, there was insufficient time. The two engines and several carriages passed over Taylor's body before the train was pulled up.
The deceased had been in tho habit of taking a short cut to the Ellerslie township across the line. He was evidently taking a message to the township. Apparently he did not observe the approaching train as he clambered over the top of the embankment and started to walk across the single track alongside the platform.
The train, drawn by two locomotives, carried about 400 workmen from the railway workshops at Otahuhu.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 14
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