A SHOCKING FATALITY
RAILWAY CLERK THE VICTIM. An accident of a very distressing kind and attended with fatal results took place in the railway yards yesterday morning, whereby John Davy Blackmore, aged 50. employed as a casual clerk in the goods shed lost his life. According to the statement of an eye witness Mr Blackmore was standing on the third line of rails opposite the station platform, checking the 8.5 a.m. train to Bluff, which was moving down towards the south end of the yards on the second line. The noise of the passing train apparently prevented him from hearing a rake of'wagons which was coming up in the opposite direction on the third line. He was struck by the leading wagon and knocked right between the rails, nine of the vehicles out of the 40 attached passing over him. Death must have been Instantaneous. Tho body was terribly mutilated. The! remains were conveyed immediately to the hospital. The deceased was an old railway employee, having been in the service from boyhood, and he was a very efficient officer in all branches of railway work. He had been in Southland for about 25 years, and at one time was stationmaster at Blenheim. Mr Blackmore was married, and leaves a wife and family of four sons and three daughters, who will have widespread sympathy of the deceased man's many friends In their sad and sudden bereavement.
-Southland Times 3 Jan 1913
RAILWAY CLERK THE VICTIM. An accident of a very distressing kind and attended with fatal results took place in the railway yards yesterday morning, whereby John Davy Blackmore, aged 50. employed as a casual clerk in the goods shed lost his life. According to the statement of an eye witness Mr Blackmore was standing on the third line of rails opposite the station platform, checking the 8.5 a.m. train to Bluff, which was moving down towards the south end of the yards on the second line. The noise of the passing train apparently prevented him from hearing a rake of'wagons which was coming up in the opposite direction on the third line. He was struck by the leading wagon and knocked right between the rails, nine of the vehicles out of the 40 attached passing over him. Death must have been Instantaneous. Tho body was terribly mutilated. The! remains were conveyed immediately to the hospital. The deceased was an old railway employee, having been in the service from boyhood, and he was a very efficient officer in all branches of railway work. He had been in Southland for about 25 years, and at one time was stationmaster at Blenheim. Mr Blackmore was married, and leaves a wife and family of four sons and three daughters, who will have widespread sympathy of the deceased man's many friends In their sad and sudden bereavement.
-Southland Times 3 Jan 1913
A SHOCKING FATALITY
RAILWAY CLERK THE VICTIM. An accident of a very distressing kind and attended with fatal results took place in the railway yards yesterday morning, whereby John Davy Blackmore, aged 50. employed as a casual clerk in the goods shed lost his life. According to the statement of an eye witness Mr Blackmore was standing on the third line of rails opposite the station platform, checking the 8.5 a.m. train to Bluff, which was moving down towards the south end of the yards on the second line. The noise of the passing train apparently prevented him from hearing a rake of'wagons which was coming up in the opposite direction on the third line. He was struck by the leading wagon and knocked right between the rails, nine of the vehicles out of the 40 attached passing over him. Death must have been Instantaneous. Tho body was terribly mutilated. The! remains were conveyed immediately to the hospital. The deceased was an old railway employee, having been in the service from boyhood, and he was a very efficient officer in all branches of railway work. He had been in Southland for about 25 years, and at one time was stationmaster at Blenheim. Mr Blackmore was married, and leaves a wife and family of four sons and three daughters, who will have widespread sympathy of the deceased man's many friends In their sad and sudden bereavement.
-Southland Times 3 Jan 1913
RAILWAY CLERK THE VICTIM. An accident of a very distressing kind and attended with fatal results took place in the railway yards yesterday morning, whereby John Davy Blackmore, aged 50. employed as a casual clerk in the goods shed lost his life. According to the statement of an eye witness Mr Blackmore was standing on the third line of rails opposite the station platform, checking the 8.5 a.m. train to Bluff, which was moving down towards the south end of the yards on the second line. The noise of the passing train apparently prevented him from hearing a rake of'wagons which was coming up in the opposite direction on the third line. He was struck by the leading wagon and knocked right between the rails, nine of the vehicles out of the 40 attached passing over him. Death must have been Instantaneous. Tho body was terribly mutilated. The! remains were conveyed immediately to the hospital. The deceased was an old railway employee, having been in the service from boyhood, and he was a very efficient officer in all branches of railway work. He had been in Southland for about 25 years, and at one time was stationmaster at Blenheim. Mr Blackmore was married, and leaves a wife and family of four sons and three daughters, who will have widespread sympathy of the deceased man's many friends In their sad and sudden bereavement.
-Southland Times 3 Jan 1913
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In loving memory of
John D Blackmore
Beloved husband of
Charlotte Blackmore
Who died as the result of an
Accident on 2nd Jan 1913
Aged 45 years
Also his wife
Charlotte Blackmore
Died 17th June 1949
Thy will be done
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