DROWNED IN A LAGOON.
A FARMER'S DEATH,
(By Telegraph—Pres3 Association.) Invercargill, November 21. A drowning accident happened at Otautau on Saturday, by which Mr. John Carrick, one of the best-known farmers in Southland, mot his death. It appears that Mr. Carrick, along with an employee, was hand-straining barb wire on the edge of a lagoon, when the wire broke, and he was precipitated into about nine feet of water. The employee made strenuous endeavours to rescue the drowning man, but without .avail. He called for assistance, and Mrs. Carrick, Mr. M. O'Brien, and others came on the scene, but it was fully fifteen minutes after tho accident before the body was reoovered. A medical man was on the scene promptly, and restorative measures were applied without avail.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 4
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127DROWNED IN A LAGOON. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 4
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