CAPSIZE OF TRACTION ENGINE.
THE DRIVER KILLED, (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. j. A fatality occurred this morning at Puketiriri, about 35 miles inland from Napier, whereby a single man named Allen Nicholson, 23 years old, lost his life. Nicholson was driving a traction engine, bringing two truck loads of timber to town, and when an embankment about a mile along the road was reached v the steering chain carried away, and the engine. went over the side, dragging' a truck with it into a gully 12 feet deep. The engine turned completely' over, and Nicholson was struck on the head with the draw-pin of the trailer, the iron penetrating the head and causing instantaneous death .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13321, 5 March 1914, Page 3
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117CAPSIZE OF TRACTION ENGINE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13321, 5 March 1914, Page 3
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