FATAL ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, Friday.
A fatal accident ocurred on the Wakamarina Golden Point Dredging Company's Sredge, Waimarina River, yesterday. Martin Elliott, a single man, thirty-three years of age, engine driver on the Golden Point dredge, was oiling the winch shaft when his clothing became entangled in. the couplings, and his left arm was reduced to a pulp, his ribs broken and vertebrae dislocated. The accident occurred at eleven o'clock last night, and the man died on the road to Havelock at three this morning. He was conscious till the end. Deceased was a popular young fellow and a keen footballer. He was formerly employed on the 'Frisco trade as a refrigerating engineer on the Moana.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 203, 7 September 1901, Page 6
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