KILLED BY A TRAMCAR.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT NEAR SUMNER. PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH. July 21. A man named .lolxn Barotta was run over by a tram-car from Sumner last night, and killed. The car had just passed Burns’s jetty, when the driver saw a short distance ahead a man wheeling a bicycle between tho rails. Ho reversed his engine and applied the brakes immediately, at the same time shouting to the man to leavo tbo track. The driver’s efforts, however, proved futile; the engine struck the man, knocked him down, ran over him, and dragged him along for some distance. The following car also passed over the -body. The bicycle, too, was run over and’ dragged along by tho engine. When the man was extricated H was found that death must have been instantaneous, His neok was broken, ncarly every bone in his body was fractured, and Ms feet wore severed. Baretta, whose ago was 23. was a stone sawyer by trade. His parents live e-t Spreydon,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5023, 22 July 1903, Page 5
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165KILLED BY A TRAMCAR. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5023, 22 July 1903, Page 5
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