FATAL ACCIDENT.
At five minutes to eight on Thursday morning a teamster named Benjamin Berry, in the employ of Mr O. G. Tripp, Orari Gorge, met with a fatal accident. It appears that he started from the wool shed with a load of artificial manure weighing two and a-half tons, when he slipped, by some means, from the shafts of the dray, on which he had evidently been sitting, and feel under the wheel, which passed over his stomach. Dr Fish was sent for immediately and arrived at 11 o’clock, but found that there was no hope whatever of saving life, and the young man died about 10 minutes past one. Berry was about 22 years of age, and a son of Mr Benjamin Berry, of Church street, Waimate. He had been working at Mr Tripp’s for about 7 months, and was considered a very steady and decent young man. His father arrived in Geraldine from Waimate yesterday, and an inquest on the body wifi be held at the Geraldine Hotel to-day.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2259, 26 September 1891, Page 2
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172FATAL ACCIDENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 2259, 26 September 1891, Page 2
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