TRAMWAY FATALITY.
A OONDUOTOB KILLED.
,(Per Press 'Association.) Ghnstohnroh, last night. A sad tramway fatality ocourred on the Samnor line about half past five this afternoon, malting in tho instantaneoas death of a young man namod Thomas Gteorgo Marsh, oondaotctr of the tram. Marsh was in tho aot of ovosalng from oris oar to inothoc when he slipped add fell between two oars. The baok oar ran over him,and his skull and spino ware fractured and his body badly bruised, death being Instilltaneous. The tram, which consisted of a steam engine and two oara,*was runniog about eight miles an hour at the time of lha aeoiaent. •
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1594, 4 November 1905, Page 3
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