FALL BENEATH TRAIN i I

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 111, 13 May 1931, Page 11

FALL BENEATH TRAIN i I

♦ j I I ELDERLY WOMAN KILLED SHOCKING FRANKTON FATALI’B I I HAMILTON, Mav 12. Shocking injuries, resulting in in ■ stantaneous death, were received by I an elderly woman, Mrs Eunice Cooke, I of Waimate North, Bay of Islands, I when she fell beneath a moving cai 1 riage at the Frankton railway siati'i. ■ at just after 12.30 p.m, yesterday. Mrs Cooke was travelling from I Auckland on the 'L'anealua express and ■ had left the train to enter the refreshment rooms at Frankton. It is thought that she noticed tw I carriages being shunted away. an : E under the impression that the train was leaving hurried out and attempted I io board the first carriage. She lost I her grip on the handrail and fell be- ; | neath the wheels of the second car i . riage, which passed over her head. I It- is the usual custom lor several i | carriages o be taken off the Taueatua j ' express at Frankton. l’n>sengers are | informed of this when the train reach-] es Agaruawahia to enable the:;) :>| move their luggage to the rear cat , Mrs Cooke was on h. r way :o \is.t ■ her daughter a Tauranga. She. belong ml to a well-known and ry old-estab-lished family in the Bay of Islands. . Members of the t'nol.e family origin . ally settled at Waimate North after , the first Church of England mission stotion was established there a is.". I and they uondui ted a flourmill which _ supplied the mission ami the early set j tiers. Descendants of the family have > lived in the district uver since. Mrs l.'ookc’s hn-baii’l died about :: eai ago. Tin i an adult