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TRACTION ENGINE FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE

DRIVER KTLI.Ii!)

(By Tclegmshr-Frm AuoeiatioH.)

EASTINGS, Last Night

Tin 1 Hawke'.s Buy 'I inil)or Company's traction .engine, while drawing "two trucks of gravel this afternoon-, nuclei* contract with the County Council, broke through a bridge on the Hn volock-Ma 11 gat e reto r o road, iunl turned turtle. The engine fell thii'L> feet. into the creek below. The driver, Mr I?. K. Turpin, aged 40, a married man with live children, and a resident of Port Ahuriri, was killedinstantly, the top of liis head bf'ing crushed between the cah and the bridge timber. His mate Laurence Williams, of Kis.sington, I ell into the water beneath the engine, and remained th<;ro until. the steam was clear. Ho was scalded about the face and leg, but wias not otherwise seriously injured. Ho has been removed to the Napier Hospital. _

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10633, 11 May 1912, Page 5

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143

TRACTION ENGINE FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10633, 11 May 1912, Page 5

TRACTION ENGINE FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10633, 11 May 1912, Page 5

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