TROLLEYMAN KILLED.
TRUCK COUPLING BREAKS. CARRIED OVER A BANK. [by telegraph.— association.] Gseymouth, Tuesday. A young man named Peter Ewart, about 30 years of age, employed as atrolleyman at the mills at Paroa, was accidentally killed this afternoon. The deceased was in charge of some trucks. On a steep grade a coupling gave way, and his mate called to him to let go, but ho did not do so, and wa« carried away by the runaway truck, which she, over a bank. When picked up Ewart wan quite dead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 10
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