FALL UNDER TRAIN
WOMAN’S LEG MUTILATED. CROWD SHOCKED. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, January 21. Thousands of people at. the Lyttelton railway station to-night waiting for the trains after the departure of H.M.A.S. Australia were deeply shocked by an accident which occurred as the first train was pulling into the platform. Mrs Lillian Marquet, of 8 Wildberry street, Woplstpn, who was standing near the edge of the platform, was pushed by the crowd over the edge. Sl-- fell beneath the train and one of the wheels came to rest over her thigh. The train was immediately broken and the carriage was, with difficulty, jacked up. It was a quarter of an hour before she could be extricated and removed to the hospital by the ambulance. She suffered a compound fracture of the left thigh and mutilation of the limb.
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Southland Times, Issue 22486, 22 January 1935, Page 6
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