RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
. -^ THREE MEN INJURED; ONE FATALLY. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. Three men, William Fyfe, John Pratt and John Henderson, were walking along the railway! from the Bluff to Ocean Beach, -when they were overtaken by n special train, ajl being thrown into the sea. Fyfe's skull was badly fractured and both legs smashed. Hfe died an hour afterwards. Pratt sustained a broken leg. Henderson escaped with bruises. Fyfe was a wool-classer. He leaves a. wife and large family at Kakanui. There was a severe gale at the time. All were sober.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 6
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94RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 6
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