KILLED BY A TRAIN.
(P«r Press Association.) HOKITIKA, Sept. 2
A fatal accident occurred on the ( Hokitika-Ross railway this afternoon. When a train was leaving Ma.nanui station, Richard Harding, aged 67, a passenger from Hokitika, who had got out, attempted to get on the moving train. . He was draggel between the carriage and shockingly mutilated. Death was in. stantaneous. He was a widower, working at Ruatapu sawmill, and leaves a growh-up family—a son residing in Timaru and two daughters at the Bluff.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 6
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