CRUSHED TO DEATH.
i • __■ ■ - •'■'••; <.;;. 1 BETWEEN STEAMER AND WHARF.., A.few niijutes after S o'clock;last-even-ii\g,.& German'fireman belonging to the Shaw-Savill' liner Waimana, was accidentally killed. The vessel : is lyinjr .it ■ )>srth No. 16, Queen's Wharf, ami underneath the gangway was a large rope net stretching-from The wluirf to .ißic ; dcck : of Hie liner. Deceased, whose namjv'is Ptter. Weiss, either fell from -the ganKvray : ''or; ■ from the wharf into the net.' The.'liner, was moving with the swell at her berth/ a and although, the man's cries ,-for..assistf -\Bce wei'O heard, it arrived too "late;- Hβ e was crushed-to. death before ho could he e pulled out.' Weiss, who was ?28. years of - nge, lias no relations in the Dominion, » but lias friends in Canada. .'.Thef»todJß s was removed to \ Hie morgue,, gnd.;an-iii-r quest-will be held. The Waimana was to , liaye left port this morning, but het.de,i parture has now been , postponed. v , •„'.;;„, r ■ '■ ','•■' .''.' :.[ ; }r\-
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 7
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152CRUSHED TO DEATH. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 7
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