FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DcNEDIN, Wednesday. A young man named Henry 1). Plante was killed on the Roslyn cable tramway this evening. It is supposed he was walking up the line through the cutting on the town belt, and the wind being strong, and the dust blowing, that he was stooping so much that he did not see the approaching tramcar coming down, which ran over him. He was taken to the Hospital, and died shortly afterwards. The young man was a compositor in the Witness Office. His parents are believed to be in Tiniaru. Later. It appears that the parents of the young man Plante, who was killed on the tramway line, are dead. It is his uncie who is in Timaru. From further information it appears Plante was caught by a gust of wind just as he was emerging from the cutting, and before he could recover himself he was blown on to the line and struck by the car. He had been walking alongside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9164, 20 September 1888, Page 5
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