INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
I FEB UNITED PBKS9 ASSOCIATION.] Inveecabgill. May 26. A railwny brenk^mnn named James Hobb was killed to day at Lumsden dur in«i shiratiDe operatjons. He was on b brake lever truck, aod it in supposed slip* ped, and in staggering back his foot caught in the frog of the points so that he was throw n longitudinally on the ratls. and the wagon passed over him, causing instant death. He was a son of Mr T. % Kobb, who, with most of his sons, is also in the railway service;-. He was 20 years of age, and a favourite with his fellows, and among the temperance workers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 144, 28 May 1891, Page 2
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