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Chris Miller Dies After Duck Shooting Accident
Chris Miller died from a severed right arm after a duck hunting accident in Oakland creek. He steered his boat a mile to reach Broadway wharf and hospital, where doctors could not save him. Miller, a welder at P. J. Shafter’s woodyard, leaves a mother in Fruitvale and East Twenty‑sixth street. his death prompted mourning in the community.
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