WORKMAN KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 102, 2 May 1929, Page 11

WORKMAN KILLED.

THREE OTHERS INJURED. FALL OF STEAM HEATER. KNOCKED FROM MOTOR LORRY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Wednesday. While unloading steam heaters at the railway "workshops at Lower Hutt about 8.30 o'clock this morning, four men were injured, one fatally, through one of the heaters being knocked from a motor lorry and falling upon them. ■ The lorry, laden with steam heaters from Messrs. A. and T. Burt's warehouse, had drawn up. in the boilermakers' shop alongside a railway line to be unloaded, when a truck came along the line and one of the uprights struck a heater, causing it to fall. Killed. Henry Cooper, an employee of the railway workshops, aged 38, who resides at 6, Moir Street, Wellington. Injured. Joseph Saunders, _ aged 52, of 494, Adelaide Road, Wellington. Harold Moon,, aged 47, of 390, The Parade, Island Bay. . Hufh Patrick Ingles, of , Majoribanks Street, Wellington. The injured men are employees of M The^ 3 men wt/conveyed to the hospital by the city ambulance. Cooper had been severely crushed andhe .sue ™mhwl to his injuries at £.«>u P- mlaunders and Moon were iniured but Ingles escaped more lightly. They are all suffering from head injuries.