Carlton Lovell Fynmore, (1873-8/4/1890). "look at that"

RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A cadet in the employ of the Railway Department named Carlton Fynmore, aged about seventeen years, met with a serious accident this afternoon. Among other duties he has to take the numbers of the cards on the trucks, and also to take particulars of the goods, and was engaged in doing this when the accident occurred. He was walking slowly along a moving train which was drawing trucks, and was engaged taking the numbers when his foot caught in a stone and he fell, his legs going across the rails in front of the wheels. Before the trucks could be stopped Fynmore had sustained severe injuries to his legs, which were badly crushed about the knees. He was picked up and carried to an adjoining shed, where he was attended to. It is feared that his legs are fractured. Some little time after the accident it was thought that Fynmore had sufficiently recovered from the shock to be conveyed to the hospital, for the examination made as to the nature of his wounds was a superficial one. He was thereupon taken to the institution, but owing to the extremely low state into which he had sunk it was found impossible to do anything until the lad is a little better. It was found that he is very much bruised, but the blood prevents all his injuries from being seen. His body is badly contused, as is his face, while in several parts he is severely crushed. His legs have been terribly crushed, and altogether Fynmore is in a very bad condition. When he rallies sufficiently steps will be taken to ascertain the precise nature and extent of his injuries, and to treat him accordingly.  -Evening Star, 8/4/1890.

DEATHS

 Fynmore. — On the 8th April, 1890, Carlton Lovell, eldest son of Charles and Clara Fynmore, and grandson to Mr John Lovell, Waverley.  -Evening Star, 8/4/1890.

FUNERAL NOTICE 

THE Friends of Mr Charles Fynmore are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his late son Carlton, which will leave his residence, Stuart street, for St. Paul’s Church, TO-MORROW (Thursday), at 3 p.m.; thence for the Northern Cemetery, at 3.15 p.m. 

HUGH GOURLEY, Undertaker, Clarke and Maclaggan streets.  -Evening Star, 9/4/1890.

An inquiry was held this afternoon, before Mr E. H. Carew, City coroner, into the circumstances connected with the death of Carlton Fynmore, who was killed at the railway station yesterday. 

Sir R. Stout was present to watch the case on behalf of deceased’s relatives. 

Charles Fynmore deposed that he was a draughtsman in the Railway Department, and identified the body of deceased as that of his son, who had been a cadet in the department. 

Christopher Robert Godley, shunter in the Railway Department’s employ, stated that yesterday in the goods yard he was employed shunting trucks, eighteen in number, from the Farmers’ Agency siding in order to clear the line for another engine. This was on a siding on the Dunedin side of the main line. There were two men on the engine. Witness was walking at the side of the train signalling. While standing at the rear of the line of trucks, waiting for another train to cross, a man on Cumberland street called out to him “Look at that,” pointing towards one of the waggons. Witness went up the line and saw deceased under the brake block of one of the trucks, which was pressing him down on to the rail. At this time the waggons had not been in motion for about three minutes. He called out to the waggon clerk, whom he saw at the time, to go and get some of the ambulance men; he also called the fireman from off the engine. Deceased called out: “Get me out, Bob; I am dying.” Witness told the fireman to “slack up” and ease the trucks off. The fireman went back to the engine and moved back about three inches. The time was ten minutes to 3 p.m. Two of the railway employes — Gray and Rankin — got a hammer and chisel and took the brake block off, which released the body of deceased. Witness had not seen deceased until he found him under the brake block, [Left sitting.]  -Evening Star, 9/4/1890.

Dunedin, 9th April. At the inquest touching the death of Carlton Fynmore, a cadet in the railway service, killed by being run over by a waggon, the jury added a rider to the verdict of Accidental Death to the effect that men of a mature age should be employed where the work is of so dangerous a nature, and the proportion of boys to men employed should be decreased.  -Evening Post, 10/4/1890.

Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.