RUN DOWN BY ROAD-ROLLER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1941, 26 December 1913, Page 6

RUN DOWN BY ROAD-ROLLER

CORPORATION EMPLOYEE KILLED. llfr TBlaJrafiK—VMCs ABJocia.lili.si.> Dunodln, Decsinber 24. i A distressing accident ocesrrod in Cumhcrlnnd Street shortly _ before ff o'clock this morning, nvidting in tho instantaneous death of John M'Luekie, aged 45, a city corporation inbamor. M'Lnckie's dtit.v vvas to v-alk in front of tiie corporation's steam roller. It wa.s his first day in tho position, although ho had been engaged in -oilier departments of the r.orporatiotf. Tho first the driver knew that anything unusual had happened was by fc-f>ling n, blimp, and he immediately pulled up tho engine. M'Luckio was then under the - roller. Tho front wheels had gone over ins legs and the hack wheels had crushed tlio lower part of his body ,He had sustained fearfol injuries, and must havo been killed outright. It would seem that the deceased must have been walking vei'v <dose to tho front wheels. Near by was mi old bag, and it is thought that probably he tripped on tho bag or took suddenly ill, and fell under tho wheels. The deceased was a married man, am, lived with his wife in M'Laggan Street. He had no fantilv. Tho monest has been adjourned till Tuesday to enable. a post mortem examination to be made.