TWO MEN KILLED
Slipped When Boarding Moving Train GOING HOME ON FINAL LEAVE Bv Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, December 14. Two men were killed and a third seriously injured when they attempted to board a special troop train at Edendale at 9 o’clock to-night. The victims were:— Killed Private James Nelson, of Nelson Street. Invercargill. Private George Sheedy, of Otautau. Injured Private William Young, of Roxburgh, condition serious. When the train, which was a special train from Burnham bringing troops on final leave, stopped at Edendale, a number of men left the carriages to farewell Captain M. C. Rice, who was leaving the train there. They evidently did not attempt to return to the carriages until the train had started tn move. Three of them slipped when attempting to board the train and were dragged under it, Nelson and Sheedy being killed outright. Young was caught between the carriage and the platform and extricated with difficulty, a number of troops easing the pressur? of the carriage on the injured man. The bodies of Nelson and Sheedy were brought to Invercargill. Young is now an inmate of the Invercargill Hospital.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 6
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