BURLESS.—July 5, at Newcastle Hospital, Charles Wesley Burless, of Braeside, Dougherty-street, Mascot, accidentally killed on railway. Funeral will leave from the above residence, on Tuesday afternoon, for Botany Cemetery.
Charles Burless, guard on the Taree mail train from Sydney, was fatally injured while endeavouring to enter the brake van when the train was leaving Broadmeadow station at about half-past five on Saturday afternoon. He fell between the van and the platform, striking his head on the latter. The train was promptly stopped, and when Newcastle was reached a stretcher was procured, and he was taken to the Newcastle Hospital, where he was admitted in an unconscious condition. He succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon, death being due probably to a fracture of the base of the skull. The deceased lived in Sydney.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday last at Broadmeadow. The Taree mail from Sydney stopped at this station, and the guard, Charles Burless, caught hold off a window sash to pull himself on the train as it moved out, when the frame broke and he fell backwards on to the platform with great violence, and received injuries which caused his death. The train was stopped, and he was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken on to Newcastle hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. He was was about 45 years of age, and leaves a widow and family to mourn their sad loss. He had been on the Taree mail for about two years, and was a general favorite on the line.