KILLED ON THE WHARF.
AT WANGANUI
Wanganui, July 10. A fatal accident occurred on the town wharf this evening. A man named Jack O’Connor, aged about 35, single, lost his li!e. He was a butcher, but for health reasons had adopted heavy work on the wharves. He was assisting to unload the Rimu, and was receiving a sling of boxes on the wharf when the boxes swung out and he Was carried with them by some means. The whole lot came to deck, the boxes on top of O’Connor. He was badly crushed, and died in the hospital about an hour later. He could only say he was a single man.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1121, 12 July 1913, Page 4
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111KILLED ON THE WHARF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1121, 12 July 1913, Page 4
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