HOLIDAY FATALITIES
. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) IWiERiCAIIGILL, Last Night. Wlhile proceeding in a. cutter from the Bluff to Stewart Islaihd, 1 Emil • Anderson, a single man, was washed overboard. ! A search was made for his Ibody, but it'proved fruitless. • Thomas Donglierty, aged 50, a labourer, was walking across the railway yard at Wyndham on Monday evening, when he was struck by a shunting engine, and killed. 1 ' ' ) ' DUNEDIN, Last Night. William Nesbitt, aged 45, a married anan residing in Anderson Road, Kai-. fcorai, was returning home iby the 9.30 o'clock car .from the Octagon, and travelled to-High Street,; the electric car from Maori Hyi, interHe ,walked on- the left iraiid side of the, track as far .as'the Loop, where a<!fatality happened. , .Evidently lie stood on the edge of tEho kerbing and lurched' - inwards as ;thecar approached! He struck' - the front portion, /missing the life guard, and fell Hinder the car, the wheels passing over botli 'his legs. The lower .port-ion of his body ! was dreadfully injured, and death was. instantaneous.. The moto-rmaai isays no one saw deceased till lie was in front of the car,, and he .was unable to pull up. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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191HOLIDAY FATALITIES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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