A TERRIBLE FATALITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 5

A TERRIBLE FATALITY.

* RUN OVER BY TWO TRAINS. A VOLUNTEER KILLED. [Fbom Our Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, April IS. A most distressing fatality occurred upon a train u'hich was carrying Volunteers to the Dunedin encampment on Thursday night. Bombadier J. Logic, who was travelling upon, the platform of a carriage next to the guard's van, I by some means fell, uneeen, between ! the platform of the carnage and the van, and was run over by the train. \The accident occurred between Merton and Puketeraki, and was not noticed by the unfortunate man's comrades. The extent of his original injuries was, of course, not ascertainable, but it appears that he must have lain upon the rails until the express from Christchurch passed shortly afterwards. The fast train ran over him a second time, and the victim of the accident wa.j cut literally to pieces. Logic was a quiet, steady, single man, extremely popular in the. B Battery, of which he \va& a member. He was a strict teetotaller, and it is supposed that he must have been thrown from his position by the sudden jerking of the train as it swung round a curve Jit the scene of the accident. At the subsequent inquest the chief witness said that the deceased was crossing from one carriage to another when th© accident happened. There was no suggestion whatever of his having been drinking. The jury returned' a verdict of accidental death.