A RAILWAY EMPLOYEE INJURED.
[United Press association.]
Dunedin, March 4. A man named Charles Keeley, a wheel tapper on the railway, was badly injured this morning at Balclutha. Ho stepped from a carriage platform of the express train standing_at the station, and he was struck by a shunting engine then passing at & fair pace. He was knocked a considerable distance, and sustained injury to the collar-bone, and it is feared that his spine is badly hurt. In tbe afternoon Keeley was removed to Dunedin, and was conveyed to the hospital. He is a married man ,about 56 years of age, and he has a family, of six. .; . .
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12480, 5 March 1909, Page 3
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107A RAILWAY EMPLOYEE INJURED. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12480, 5 March 1909, Page 3
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