Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 05:35:01 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, January 18, 1923
Page 1
Bridge Carpenter Instantly Killed
Thomas A. O’Hara, a bridge carpenter employed by the Northwestern Pacific, was instantly killed last Friday while working on the Greenbrae bridge with a number of fellow employees.
An inquest held Saturday by Coroner J. Ray Keaton and a jury brought out the evidence that O’Hara was struck by a falling pile which he was chopping down, one of the timbers of the old structure, and pinned against another heavy timber. Workmen standing near him testified that death was instantaneous. He was 41 years of age and unmarried. He had been in the employ if the ___?___ company for a number of years and made his home(?) with the other bridge carpenters on the work train.
The body was shipped to San Bernito county, the home of his sister, by the F. E. Sawyer Company, and burial was made in Paicines Tuesday.
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