STRUCK BY TRAIN.
Railway Porter Killed at Wanganui. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, May 1. John Ross, thirty-eight years of age, a married man, with a wife and four children, was killed by the WellingtonWanganui express near the Taupo quay railway crossing at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Ross was a porter and was employed to day as an assistant in a shunting gang at the Wanganui railway vards. He and Robert Kerr, who was in charge of the gang, were preparing a mixed train for departure to Hawera at 4.15 p.m.. and pending the arrival of the engine from the sheds, went to a shunters’ hut. They followed one another out of the hut to check the points on the far side of the main line. Kerr was in front and Ross a few yards in the rear. Neither noticed the approach of the express from Aromoho, and Kerr, looking back after crossing the line, saw Ross being struck by the engine. Ross came to Wanganui in June, 1933. Previously he was stationed at Ohakukura.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20603, 2 May 1935, Page 16
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