RAILWAY FIREMAN KILLED.
CRUSHED BETWEEN TRUCKS. IUX TELEGRAM.— CORRESPONDENT.] ■WSANGAEEI, Monday. A fatal accident occurred this morning on the Oakleigh section of the Main Trunk railway construction work, the victim being Benjamin Radcliffe, a married man, aged about 58 vears. He was acting as a fireman on* a ballast engine working in the Tauraroa quarrv, and while linking up two trucks was caught between them and crushed sustaining injuries to which he succumbed
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16581, 3 July 1917, Page 4
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73RAILWAY FIREMAN KILLED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16581, 3 July 1917, Page 4
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