INJURIES PROVE FATAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 8

INJURIES PROVE FATAL

YOUTH WHO FELL UNDER A TRAIN ARM AND LEG AMPUTATED [ Per Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 3. Andrew Wilson, aged 171 years, of Manunui, died in the New Plymouth Hospital to-day as a result of injuries received at New Plymouth railway station on Sunday when attempting to board an excursion train to Taumarunui. Shocking injuries to his left leg and arm, and to his chest were received by Wilson. After being picked up from the track when the train had passed he was rushed by ambulance to the hospital. The train had just started and was travelling at about ten miles an hour when Wilson, carrying a parcel under his right arm, sprinted through the eastern entrance to the station and made a dash for the front of the third-from-last carriage. Despite a warning shout from a station official, he jumped toward the step of the carriage, but missed a grip of the hand-rail with his left hand and collided heavily with the moving train. The impact threw him full length on to the station platform with his legs projecting over the edge. As a result his feet were struck by the rearward cars as they passed, and, rolling over, he was dragged off the platfoi-m to fall on the side of the track. Amputation of both the left leg and arm was found necessary at the hospital. Wilson had come from Manunui on the excursion train to spend the day at Ngamotu Beach. MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR [ Per Press Association.] HOKITIKA, Jan. 3. On New Year’s Eve, at 10 o’clock, Albert David George Edwards, a locomotive driver, was knocked down by a motor-car driven by F. Pascoe, of Hokitika Edwards received severe injuries to the head, neck, and legs. He was admitted to the Westland Hospital and died there on Sunday afternoon. He leaves a window and grown-up family. He was aged 62.