Railway Accidents.
Wellington, February 28
The Railway Department has received advises of several accidents on Saturday. Near Invercargill a train collided with an express and smashed it, and another run over a man and cut his arm off. At Glensby, North Oamaru, a woman got off while the train was in motion and Tell uadu :. uv..-
riage, the body being mangled. Invebcakgill, February 28. A young man named Walter Blaikie, a farm laborer, fell off a night train to Woodlands on Saturday, and his left arm below the elbow was crushed to a pulp. He also sustained a scalp wound four inches long, The injured limb was amputated at the Hospital.
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Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9109, 1 March 1898, Page 3
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111Railway Accidents. Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9109, 1 March 1898, Page 3
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