CASUALTIES.
KILLED .BY A FALL OP EARTH.
(FBXSS ASSOCIATION TXUCGKAH.) AUCKLAND, January 30. This afternoon! a fatal accident happened in some drainage works in Upper Queen street, wihereby a. -workman earned , BaskerviHe lost hie life. Baekerville wee working witih come ot>her men in au excavation, which was a fairly deep cue. One side of the excavation caved in and bvried , the unfortunate man up to )—* neck, pimung him against the opposite wall. It was seen at once thai Baekervilie was eeriiously injtured, ana prompt measuree were taken to get him ou<>. When this was done, however, it wan fomnd that his injuries we're very serious. Medical skill was of no •avail, and the unfortunate man must have died shortly after the fall of earth. Ba«----kerville was a married] man with a large family. HOKITDiA, January 30. Francis Robeck, a young man 19 yeara of age, eon of a well known hairdresser of thia town, wee accidentally drowned this afternoon in Lake Mahinapua. The body was recovered this evening! About 2 o'ekwk yesterday; afternoon a man named Richardson, .while loading ■wheat ab the MJokorfa, at the No. 2 wharf, Lytteltoa, was badly crushed and brutad by .being jammed againet the et*ck by a sling of «aoke. Sβ was taken to Dr. Peirman, who sent him to the Caeuai Ward.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 9
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218CASUALTIES. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 9
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