Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Rapoza, John Joquim April 7, 1915
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 4-13-1915
RAPOZA, JOHN JOQUIM
FIREMAN KILLED BY A CANE CAR.  John J. Rapoza, aged 19 years and 10 months, a 
fireman on a cane train of the Makee Sugar Company, was run over by a car of his 
train last Wednesday afternoon and was killed almost instantly, his head been 
crushed. The train, which was near the landing, was moving very slow, engaged in 
coupling. Rapoza stepped in to couple two cars. His foot became entangled in a 
rope which was dragging there, and he fell. A sailor of the steamer Likelike saw 
the man fall and shouted to Captain Naipo who was nearer the engine. Captain Naipo 
yelled to the engineer, and the train was brought to a sharp standstill. In the 
few seconds, however, the man had been caught. The family of which Rapoza was a 
member has experienced two tragedies in a short time; the father of the young man 
being found dead in a cane field about two years ago. The boy was the main support 
of his mother and family. 


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