KILLED BY A TRAIN.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NAPIER, March 8. Mr Ben Smith, a well known architect formerly of Wellington, while crossing the railway bridge . this morning at Waipawa was run over by the train and killed. Deceased was seen by the driver to hold on to the girders as the train approached, but while it was passing it is thought he must have become giddy and fell forward. Mr Smith was superintending the erection of a largo mansion for Mr J. Hardy, of Mount Yernon, for which he was architect.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1007, 9 March 1883, Page 3
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