Terrible Accident to a Woman.
A fiightlul accident occurred at the Quorn railway station, near Adelaide, on Monday. The wifo of Alexander Me Loan, a labourer, was going b> train to Terowie to meet her husband. She was crossing the hue from North Quorn. A cattle train was standing in the way, and, instead of goint,' sound, she crawled under the train • While ehf> was under the trucks the train moved and passed over her, cutting otF one leg, aud causing other injuiies, wnieh aro expected to prove fatal. Trie woman hud live childi'en with her. One child waia in her arms at the time of the accident, but she throw tho child clear of the trucks, and it, escaped injury A police trooper took the cbildien, and the voman was sent to the Port Augudta Eofpxial.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 159, 3 July 1886, Page 2
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