ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
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INVERCARGILL, yesterday
Robert Watson, aged 68, a farmer, of Oreti Plains, was found dead m his trap on tho Winton, road this morning. The cause of death is supposed to be heart disease. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. An engine-driver, Douglas Young, engaged last night with his engine running trucks down the railway yard near Colombo-street, ran diagonally into three trucks standing upon an adjacent siding.- The engine just failed to clear the trucks, and Young jumped off the engine and was crushed between it and the stationary trucks. Young was badly crushed in tho chest, and was dead when picked up. Ho was a married man, with one child.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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112ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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