FATALITY AT GORE.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12159, 6 February 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)

FATALITY AT GORE.

TWO LIVES LOST. ? Gore, January 26. A distressing fatality occurred on <4 Saturday evening as the 9.30 express train was approaching the Gore raill Way station. It appears a young man :* named George Urban Lindley, accompanied by a young lady named Annie Stewart, tbe daughter of Mr Uavid Stewart, fanner, Croydon, / were driving along Mersey street, r and as tbe train approached the 7 crossing keeper culled out to them to ,*, Etop. LinriJey, who was driving. j pulled up for a moment between tbe s uourmill and the train line. and then he suddenly drove on, with the re- .; suit tbat the train struck the fora'j • pfirt of the buggy, sending the horse >i f(1 one side of the line. Tbe buggy ' f \ aiifi Miss Stewart were carried on <pr js a' 1 out thirty yards. The spectators on thr? platform were horrified to see S H man's body on the footplate of the is e nj<ine, lying against the smoke-box, U j»3 the train drew • into the station. g| jwndley was quite dead. I!, is stated |& Jaat electric light lampß.on either of m "8 crossing were not lighted, and m[ Neither the engine drive/- or fireman m saw the bugey as they swept around |K we curve over the crossing. Miss ™etevvart lingered until ,'slk o'clock |B l! U9 moraing. Both, of )be deceased »were 26 years of age, r