ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Per Press Association.
CHRISTCHURCH, November 3. A sad tramway fatality occurred on the Sumner line aibout half-past five this afternoon, 'resulting in the instantaneous death of a young man named Thomas George Marsh, conductor of a traan. Marsh was in the act of crossing from one car to another when he slipped between two cars. The back car ran over him and his skull and spine were fractured and his body badly bruised, death 'being instantaneous. The tram, which consisted of a st&ami engine and two cars, was running about eight miles an 'hour at the time of tihe accident.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12645, 4 November 1905, Page 8
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103ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12645, 4 November 1905, Page 8
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