ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION] Timauu, November 21. A little boy of six, eon of a labmrar named Redmond, was killed instantaneously at the railway yards this evening. He was crossing the yard at the moment the south express waß passing, and somehow got in the way of the train shunting on the next line. His head was nearly severed from his body. Inveucabuiu., November 21. To-night, after 9 o'clock, a shunter named William Blay, while at work in the station yards here, was run down by a carriage and terribly mangled, dying a few minutes after. It is not known whether he fell in front of the moving carriage or w»s knocked down, The night was dark and bn'sterous. Dncetscd was married, and leaves a widow and one daughter. He had been here about four years, and was a member of the Oity Band, He took part in the flag unfurling at the Sjuth School in the forenoon.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 229, 22 November 1900, Page 2
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