ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10916, 4 November 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A RAILWAY TRAGEDY. CHILD KILLED AND ANOTHER HURT. A MOTORIST'S NARROW ESCAPE. [Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Nov. 3. Two small children were playing on the railway line at Terrace End to-day and walked from the end of a stationary goods train into the Auckland express. They were thrown by the engine into the grass. Ono child, aged four, named Cross, was killed outright, and the other, Allen, a boy, was very much hurt about the head, and had his leg broken, and there is little chance of his recovery. A well-known citizen, Mr F. J. Nathan, was nearly run over at the Square crossing while in a motor-ear. The express came up behind the slow morning goods train. He just jumped clear in time. The driver pulled up the engine in a few feet. The car was not damaged.

KILLED BY A TRAIN. [Per Press Association.] ELTHAM, November 3

Mr J. Attrill, a railway employee resident in Eltham for several years, was returning from the direction of Teroti this evening on a velocipede when he was run into by a train, with fatal results.

BODY FOUND. [Per Press Association.] HOKITIKA, November 3. The body of a man was found on tho sea beach about four miles north of Hokitika this evening. From information received by the police the description answers to that of a man missing from the s.s. Kairaki for the past ten or twelve days.