TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 3

TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE

What a terrible experience must have been that of Charles Caficrty, a miner who had been in tho employ of tho Homsworth colliery at Doncaster (England). For a whole night ho suffered the inexpressible agony of hearing no loss than 19 railway trains pass over his prostrate body, whilo ho lay in a dying state, pinned down in tho 4 feet “track,” and yet was in such a position that not one of theso trains injured him! Caficrty, a single raau, had wandered on to tho Great Northern and Central railway line, and was knocked down by a train, which fluug him between tho rails in tho manner above described. AVhen knocked down ho had a rib fractured and sustained lacerated wounds on tho head, whilo his lower limbs wero paralysed. All night ho was forced to lio in ono position. His agonies prevented him from relapsing into unconsciousness, and ho was able to count every train that passed over him. But his cries for help wero never heard, and, of course, the darkness hid him from view. When daylight broke his position was revealed to the guard of a passing train, and his release was promptly obtained. But tho poor fellow only survived a short time after his admission to Doncastpr Hospital, whoro an operation was performed.