UNUSUAL FATALITY.
YOUNG .MAN "ctUJSHED TO DEATH
(Per Press Association,! DANNEVIRKE, April 14. An unusual fatality attended die building of a bridge over the stream on the main Napier Road near Mukotuku. While engaged yesterday afternoon in stripping the easing olf a green concrete pillar John Bell, of Whetukura, aged 21, met Ids death. The concrete broke and seven hundredweight fell on Bell, throwing him into the stream and crushing him against the timbers ol the foundation. The pillars crumbled and covered the body which was not iceovered till daylight. John Brown, who was assisting Bell, had a narrow escape.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 681, 14 April 1923, Page 5
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