ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

HAni-BRETADTH ESCAPE,

(BY TELEGRAPH—FEESS ASSOCIATION,)

. A- young'-man named. Baltrop, a passenger by tho up express train,, had a narrow es-. 'cape_from death in Ihe Mangamalioo tunnel .on Tuesday. It appears (says The Dojiin- • ion s Eketahuna- corrcspondtnt) that Baltrop, who was travelling to Palmerston North, : was- standing on. the- carriage platform when .no' turned to. enter the. carriage as the; train. ; approached the tunnel/ lu doing so ho sidestepped, and 1 ,, overbalancing,, foil from . tho j * r ?S Ii '■' luckily, ;hp- lauded ,' in tho water-, i table- without- serious injury, and, crouching low, ho remained where he- fell until the ! tram had passed By.. He, made a ifutilo' at ; tempt- to attract- tho- attention of the guard ! after;emerging from the. tunnel, but had to , walk to Ekctahuna, a distance 'of about three ; miles, and proceeded on his journey by tho next train-,-little the worse for'his hairibreadth escape. ■•■■•■: ' ! YOUNG LAD 7 ?, FALLS. FROM A TRAIN. . -_A young-lady, named Eleanor .Sarah ■ tlawkes met with an accident while travel- ' 558- on; the tram between Henderson and Waikumete on Monday, last.' ..It appears Mat; Miss. Hawkes, in company with ..her I father,, boarded the train a* Henderson, with ithe intention of. coming to/ town; / ..Feel,mg . the ; stuffiness of, the 7 carriage 7 sonieli.what-. trying, Miss. Hawkes.went put on to |!the;;platform,: but she had';not been standHm. there for more than a few .minutes' wheii l.she/became giddy,' and fell sideways off'the ..tram;;'TheHrain at the time was passing I orer ( ;the bridge over the Henderson-Creek, ~and tho.iyoung lady fell' clear into the water. The fact that she had fallen was immediately [.reported,,tp.the guard,-,who had the tram ■brought to a standstill, and shunted back I to;the bridge. iMiss Hawkes was found lying in .the. bed 'of. -the''streamy" with' her. head just but Of. the water.; ■ She iwas in"a: dazed was .put on" the traid and brought to town,', being taken to .and. admitted/to the. Auckland Hospital. On ex? Lamiilatioaiit was fouiid, that .no bones had ■been-broken, notwithstanding the height of ; the;fall,':and .that Miss Hawkes was inorely . suffering from shock.': ): .'. -'' • /Y r,; ;ACCroBNTAL^DEOWNINGS; ■ -~;.' ■:■-. "'■■v.. 1 '"-., ;■ '•-'. Clsborne, January 27. At-the inquest.on Dora Alice Griffin, 'the jury, returned;a verdict'of accidental drown- [ fng,; probably cansed.'by sudden immersion 'in coldv water whilst over-heated.Y 1 ffAmf. etaoeu he etaoeu no. etaoeii neu neet Y\; YDROWNED IN'A CREEK./ ';•; '■: CDY TELEQEAPH- SPtClkh CORBESPOKDIKT.i ; '"■ "n'''i'■"• '.'"""•'Ai*. 1 • i Has t'nS3, January 27. ■-. 'Patrick. O'Brien,, aged 75, was, found drowned, ma creek at Pakipaki last night. At an inquest an open verdict was returned. ■'-. , :,:V;; ; ■.WUfe-DROWNIi. :: :'.''■/■'''.-, '' m, ; ' 7 Y Y.■ ■'■'.'■'. : !£hristchurch,- January 27. ■-..-, Jhe.-bodv.. of Hen 17 Bennett,, a farmer- residing at .the jStyx, was to-day found drowned in : a . three-feet-wide ■■ drain,/ m which the water .was about three feet deep. Tied by a Pj<*e,of'• 'rope' round the-'neck.-.'was'- an old ploughshare. >Deceased left .a note stating ,that .he intended"Mimmittingi.suicide.!;.:... '.;„- .-■'•'' _£ ";• ; : lnvoroarsill, v January : 27l- : '■■:\ The police iaro advised-from Clinton that' the much decomposed' body of an unknown man has been'found in thePomahaka River.' YThe-Wyhdham .police report .that-a': farmer."named Donald Frasor, lias been found drowned: in' a lagoon near his home at Fort:TOSe;.:';Deceaserwas. about 62'.years ■ old./ '