FATAL ACCIDENT.
Per Press Association^ GREYMOUTI-I, last night. A’ fatal accident occurred in Cote den quarry this morning. A workman named McKendry, aged 28, was prizing a stone about six feet from the bottom, when the stone gave way, more easily than he expected, and carried him along for a few feet. He slipped, and his foot got caught between a couple of rocks severing half of the foot. In falling he also sustained internal injuries. He was taken to the Hospital, but died a lew. minutes after admission,-
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 959, 4 August 1903, Page 1
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89FATAL ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 959, 4 August 1903, Page 1
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