TWO PEOPLE ARE INJURED.
ACCIDENT OCCURS ON WEST COAST TRAIN. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, January 20. Miss Muriel Cochrane, of Cobden, and Mr Frank Thomas, of Kotuku, were injured yesterday by an accident on the excursion train returning from Arthur’s Pass to Hokitika. The engine had passed the Teremakau bridge near Jackson’s when it struck a worker’s hut which had been blown close to the line by a high wind. The hut struck Mr Thomas and MiSs Cochrane, who had their arras hanging over the carriage windows. Mr Thomas’s left arm was crushed and had to be amputated this morning at the Grey Hospital. Miss Cochrane sustained a double fracture of the left arm above the elbow. Thomas’s condition was reported to be fair to-day. Another passenger. Miss F. Brown, is reported to be suffering from a fractured wrist.
A railway officer was dispatched from Christchurch yesterday to make inquiries regarding the accident, but no information had been received last night.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18971, 21 January 1930, Page 4
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