RAILWAY GUARD LOSES LIFE
KNOCKED DOWN DURING SHUNTING. WHEELS OF VAN PASS OVER BODY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Taihape, Jan. 25. A railway guard named Thomas Williams, middle aged, with a wife and two daughters, was run over and killed instantly at 12.25 p.m. to-day at the Taihape station. He left a south-bound goods train to adjust a disc on the rear guard’s van. The train suddenly shunted and knocked him down. The wheels passed over the body, the van being derailed. There were no witnesses to the accident.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1934, Page 7
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