CRUSHED TO DEATH
TREE FALLS ON BUSHMAN. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, January 26. Joseph Hanrahan, a single man, aged 36, was killed instantaneously at 2.30 p.m. near Nelson Creek while trimming a tree felled over four hours earlier, which in falling struck another, a birch. The latter tree gradually split down the trunk for fifteen feet and then came away, giving Hanrahan no chance to escape. His neck was broken, also the left arm, while the ribs were penetrated into the lungs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12355, 27 January 1926, Page 7
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