FIREMEN KILLED.
OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. ENCINE CAPSIZES. [Per Pr.Ess Associations] HAMILTON, January 20. As a lire engine, carrying eleven men, was proceeding to a fire it tried to pass a motor-lorry which was in the centre of the road. The driver of the latter evidently did not hear the eugino and kept straight on. The engine, endeavouring to pass, struck a bank, with the result that it turned a complete somersault, and the men wero scattered in all directions. Albert Graham, aged twenty-four, died on the way to the hospital : George Prince, aged sixtyeight, was removed to tlie hospital and had a leg amputated, and died three hours later ; £S. Duckey is in the hospital still unconscious, and .Superintendent Archer has a broken coliai bone. The others were seriotislv injured and the engine was "badly smashed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 7
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