ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[per press association.]
Nelson, September 17,
A fatal accident occurred at Maitai Valley this morning. John Packer, an elderly man, with his son Howard and another youth, were getting totara piles out of a rough gully, and when carting the piles the dray overturned while crossing a creek, and John Packer was crushed to death beneath the dray. His son and the other youth were attempting to extricate deceased when Howard was kicked by one of the horses in the head and side and badly hurt. John Packer leaves a widow and a numerous family, Dunedin, Sept 17,
William Troy, one of the greasers on the Karamea, was drowned at Port Chalmers last night. Ho was going on board with his brother, and took the outside of the railway tracks on the wharf, the brother walking on the inner side. There was a splash hoard and an alarm given, but an hour elapsed before the body was recovered. At the inquest the verdict was accidentally drowned, the jury adding that the attention of the Railway Department, which controls the wharf, be called to the urgent necessity for the protection of the wharves after night-fall.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 September 1901, Page 4
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197ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 September 1901, Page 4
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