TEAM FATALITY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night.
A man named John Baretta was run over by the tram from Sumner last night and killed. The tram had just passed Burns’ jetty when the driver saw a short distance ahead a man wheeling a bioycle between the rails. He reversed his engine and applied the brakes immediately, at the same time shouting to the man to leave ths track. , The efforts, however, proved futile, and the engine struck the man and knocked him down, ran over him, and dragged him along for some distance. The following car also passed Over the body. The bicycle wa3 also run over and dragged along by the engine. When the man was extricated it was found thav death must have been instantaneous. His "aok was broken, and nearly every bone i his body fractured. His feet were severed'.': Baretta was 23 years of age, a Biono sawyer by trade, and his parents live at Sproydon.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 948, 22 July 1903, Page 3
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