ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 36, 6 November 1907, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN DROWNED AT PIRINOA. HELP COMES TOO'LATE. : i., I , ~.. [BY TELEQRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]; • 'C™ ■ Featherston r.Number! 5. . • A< (drowning • accident occurred at' Pirinoa ' to-day. An elderly man' natned Joseph .Uprichard ■ lodt" his lifo in crossing the Ruamahunga River with another man. named 'Moyors. The boat began- .iii'..'water, and ho jumped out. Air.Clarksoni saw the accident, and callod out to Uprichard, who said he was ■ all right. ' Lator on ho".saw \ Uprichard in, difficulties,.' an|l put out in' i " boat to .'Help him. Tho -wind- was against ,progress, r a)id Clarkson got. out and "swam, but deceased sank. Clarkson dived, but could not loQata'him. Deceased was .a. married' 'man)' 'residing at Grey town.. ' He leaves a wife and four children. Ho has been living in. Wairarapa five ybars, and came .from Can; '""* t'ei-bury. ■ Tho. police aro dragging for the'' body. .... - RAILWAY ACCIDENT. [by telegraph.—own correspondent,] ■'...' ~ Auckland, November 5.,,,' Tho railway crossing at Green Lane (EllerS', lie) was tho sceno of a mishap yesterday afternoon, tho Waikato train outward from Auckland dashing into two calves which wero • being driven across the line. One of the animals! was caught in tho cowcatcher, dragged about 40. yards, and cut to. pieces, while the other was struck and thrown clear, but killed. Tho owner made n determined effort ; to head tho young beasts off,the lino when . ho saw tho impending danger, but instead of; .effecting tho attempted rescuo wont very closo to losing his own lifo as well as that of tho horso ho was riding. He managed to pull his stoed up barely a foot away from tho .train as it dashed past. acc'idont ' the owrier' vowed dire vengeance against tho Railway Department, and in view of a prospectiveclaim for compensation took precaution to secure a portion of the tail of One of the' dead calves. ■ -Wliilo thus engaged his horso Lboltod-doWn Green .Lane, tho troublo of cap-. ,turing.it increasing his overcharged feelings. : SUDDEN DEATH./ Auckland, November 5. ' - Richard Stovens, aged about fifty, astoerago.passongpr by iho .Barava, airived at Oneliungft from-Tfiranaki this morning. He com"plaine4 of faintness of heart, and got permission to'wait on board. Whilo the steward was getting him a drmk ho collapsod and died boforo a doctor arrived. His papers show Commercial .IJnion Insurance receipts for two • houses in St. Asaph Street, Linwood, Christchurch. The police also foun'd among his possessions ,n standard milk cooler. '. , According to {olographic advico received I liy tlie'police, a man named Mosoph'Upri- f ihafd was drowned m tho". Ruaniahunga | Rivor yesterday morning, about two . mileo I from, the lako. Tho body had not boon recovered |