RAILWAY SHUNTER KILLED.
j (By Telegraph.—Press Associating) • CHKISTCHURCH, this dxy. | ! Last night a young man named $&| I Cowper, 24 years of age, who mv u» t- ' in» as a shunter on the railway, wa* ate icidentally killed in the Lyttelton yaid.> ! Deceased was riding on op" of the waggons of the express train from Gladstone. . pier to Xo. 2 jetty to go alongside the [Wellington steamer. Another waggon standing en the line which joins that on which the trr.in was running, was set iin motion by a sudden gust of wind, anil enme into eolli-ia:i with the waggon on which Cowper was travelling ■ His body was badly crushed, his back was fractured, and each of his legs was broken I above the «:nee.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 13 April 1904, Page 6
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