BURIED UNDER CARGO.
A SEAMAN KILLED,
TIMARU, Dec. 19
An able seaman, named Christopher Hesler, was killed on Saturday evening in the hold of the steamer Pukaki, about 7 o'clock. A number of cases and sacks of flour piled in the hold pame down heavily. A local man, P. O'Brien, was pinned underneath, but was released with a broken ankle. No one suspected a still graver accident till nearly, an hour after# wards, when, upon raising some fallen bags Hesler's dead body was found underneath. There was a wound over the left eye, and it Is supposed that a case struck his head. At the inquest to-day it was stated that deceased was a native of London, aged 24, and that he had a sister in Wellington, and had been on the Pukaki three months. The inquest was adjourned.
TELEGRAMS.
(Press Association.)
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1910, Page 4
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