ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

•(by telegbaph.—i-hess association.) INSTANTANEOUS DEATH. . V/aihi, May 18. ' . Early this moniing Frank Mahon, ■ braceman ■at ■ the Grand Junction. Mine, while helping to start-the-big fly-wheel of the air compressor engine, was suddenly caught up by the wheel and whirled around, • death be-ing'.-instantaneous.' 1 . - ' / FITAL GDN ACCIDENT. . ' : InvercargHlj May ,18. , William M'Leod, sixteen years of age, son of a settler'at Caroline, while out shooting on.Sundaly, was killed.by the'accidental dis-" charge of a gun. , f BODY FOUND. • ■ \ , - • Dunedin, May 18. The ~ body, of Robert . Slator, who was drowned in the collision off Otago Heads last month, was found near, Maori Kaik this 'morning. FALL FROM A TRAIN. " Dunedin, May .18. Mr. James M'Eneamy,. who sustained a fractured skull as .the result of a fall from a train near Dunedin station, on tho ovoning of May ;9, died in tho hospital at op.m to-day. / COACH OyERTURNED. ' -V, .Napier, May. 18. • Mr.. L„ Bradley's coach, while coming from Puketitira to Napior to-day, was overturned in . Bennett's. Cutting,' through one of the horses taking fright. , The coach was badly damaged, but driver and - passengers oscaped. serious injury, and came in to Napier, in another coach. .