A SHUNTING FATALITY.
[Unit 33 Paess Association.] WELLINGTON, Saturday, o During shunting operations a1 d Thorndon last night, a shunter named i- George Alexander Watkins was acci '- dentally killed. With two other-* he l * was engaged breaking trucks, when P suddenly his lantern was seen to fall. |* His companions found him lying [' across the raite terribly injured, and dead. Tt is supposed that he slipped, | and before ho could recover himself tho trucks passed over him. The deceased was a married man, and camo from Australia. He had been f in the railway service from four to . five years, and was experienced in i shunting. -
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 February 1909, Page 3
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105A SHUNTING FATALITY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 February 1909, Page 3
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