MAN HAS HIS LEG SEVERED
CAUGHT BY TRAIN IN CUTTING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Sept. 30. While in the Dunollie railway cutting on Saturday night Robert Scott, of Runanga, employed as engine-driver at tho James mine, was overtaken by a train running to town and the wheels passed over his right leg, practically severing it. On his removal to the hospital the leg was amputated. Satisfactory progress is reported this morning.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1929, Page 13
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