ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
NEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.
CHRIBTCHTJROH, July 21. A man named John Baretta was run OTer by a tram from Sumner last night and kiil-d. The tram bad just passed Burns jetty when the driver saw a ihert dis'ance ahead a man wheeling a bicycle between the rails. The driver v shouted to the man to lrave the tnck, »** jtJmV 'air ,rJtjrta_ proved futilp, ss thiengine Btiuck the mar, knocked him down, ran over him, and dragged him along for seme distance. The following car also ran over the body, and :hs : bicycle was also run over and dragged along. The man when extricated was found to be dead. Death must have been instantaneous, as t early every bone in his body was broke d, and his feet were severed from tfce body. Baretta was 23 years of' age, and a stone sawyer by trod?, and his parents f at Spreydown. Received 21,10 p.m. j
Sydney, July 21. One mm was seriously, and two slightly injured by the collapse ef a building which was being demolished in George-street,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 170, 22 July 1903, Page 3
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179ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 170, 22 July 1903, Page 3
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