FATAL ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TIMAKU, this day
A young man named John Newtown met with a fatal accident at the Christohurch Meat Company's Worlds on Saturday afternoon. He was at work in the manure department, and was carrying a 2cwt sack of manure, when he slipped on the concrete floor and fell heavily. In his fall he broke his collar-bone, and injured his spine so severely that from the waist downwards he was completely paralysed. Doctors were at once telephoned for, but could do nothing. The young man lingered till eleven o'clock on Saturday night, when death put an end to his sullcrings.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 259, 8 November 1897, Page 5
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