ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TRIPLE DROWNING* TRAGEDY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Last Night. A triple drowning tragedy occurred to-day in the Ahaura Paver. About 1.30 p.m. William Crysell, engine-driver, aged 50, John Brosnan, aged 30, and Thomas Reynolds, aged 4f), dredge hands, were in a boat engaged in the work of moving the Ahaura dredge downstream, in a fresh, for dismantling, when the boat, by some means, capsized. The men all disappeared and were not again seen The boat was drifting away when the dredgemaster first noticed the accident. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Crysell leaves a wife and three of a grown-up family at Ahanra. Brosnan leaves a wife and two children at Waikaia, Otago. Reynolds is a single man.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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122ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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