ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED.
ON iWHANGAMOMONA LINE.
Falls From His Cab.
'FIREMAN STOPS TRAIN
BODY TERRIBLY MUTILATED
(By Telegraph—Press Association) STRATFORD, June 2.
There was a tragedy on the Whangamomona line. this , morning,. -,the driver of a mixed train to Stratford, James Foreman, being killed. . >
The train was ascending the gradient Whagamompna Saddle, when the fireman, Charles Parker, who was attending to the fire, felt a bump, and turned to draw the driver’s attention to it, but found Foreman missing. He stopped the train and searched for the body, which was found under the seventh waggon, terribly mutilated. Life was extinct. Deceased was aged 38, and leaves a wife and two children.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18512, 2 June 1932, Page 3
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