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BRIDGE WORKER KILLED AT HUNTLY. Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 4. Samuel Bowden, fifty years of ago, was killed at Huntly to-day. Deceased was employed on the erection of a bridge over the Waikato, and fell from a pile-driving machine, a distance of forty feet into tho river, striking his head on a punt in falling. The body was not recovered for over an Hour. Bowden’s skull was badly fracurod, and his right wrist broken. It is most probable ho was dead before reaching the water.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 7
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88FELL FORTY FEET New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 7
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