SHOCKING INJURIES
WATERSIDER’S DEATH By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 21. Shocking injuries that caused almost immediate death were received by a waterside worker, P. O’Brien, of Vivian Street, Wellington, when the wheels of a railway carriage passed over his body. He was crossing the railway lines near the old Thomdon railway station about 4.15 p.m. on Saturday when he was struck by a shunted carriage and dragged beneath the wheels. He died on the way to the Public Hospital in the ambulance.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 8
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