CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

(PRESS ASSOCIATIOK TELEGBAM.) ~ AUCKLAND, December 2,' Cyril Bridgens and 'Inomas J . Sheehan, who were driving a motor milk vanfroffl town, were run down by a train at '* level crossing in Newmarket. The van was smashed to matchwood; has a broken leg and other injuries, bm Sheohan a broken arm and severe and face wounds. Both were removed to the hospital. Their injuries »« Jw» regarded as likely to prove fatal. Too accident occurred at a very dangerous place, where approaching trains ere not visible until a person is within a very short distance. It is stated that the whistle was blown. Bridgens «a Sheehan evidently did not hear it. A married man named H. Gaklor, * Union Company's employee, fell irOT* a ladder on the King's wharf «*» morning. He was ■ admitted to Mc hospital immediately, suffering from concussion of the brain. His condition is regarded as serious. - WANGAKUI, December 3. A young man named BeguwW t». Faber, aged eighteen, met with*'»*■* accident yesterday. While motor-bicycle he collided with a-aray and sustained a fractured' = «"??** Death resulted this afternoon., raow was a well-known athlete and »» S?* student of tho Collegiate School.. **« represented Wanganui in Rugby ,«0£ ; ball, cricket, and hockey, and Vβ? _<aB, oarsman. ' , «' T: MARTOX, December. S..v. An elderly man named William-. Smith, a resident of Bulls for thirtyr five years, was killod He.«•• giving a lad a rid© behind him wluie returning homo from the Marton MVP sales, and the horse objecting to • tOT; double burden, threw Smith. He feq on his forehead and was killed instantaneously. Hβ leaves a widow end eight children, all grown up. . .