A SHOCKING DEATH.
Press Association. Gli HYMOUTH, August 9. A fatal accident occurred on the wharf to-dav, a Swede named Eric Ostorlund, aged 30 years, and sailor off the Ganymede, being crushed to death between a railway truck and a mooring post. The unfortunate fellow was helping to push a truck of timber and got pinned, the clear distance being only a couple of inches. He was terribly crushed, and died almost immediately. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2155, 10 August 1907, Page 3
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79A SHOCKING DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2155, 10 August 1907, Page 3
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