Abbreviations used
Date February 15 1883
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
On Sunday afternoon a brakeman named George HILLSON of Moncton (West. Co.) while attempting to get on a box car which was being set off at Sackville station, slipped and rolled under the car, crusing in right arm and right leg fearfully. He was taken to Moncton where doctors amputated his arm and leg, but he died Monday afternoon.