ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 521, 31 May 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

-V--. '.7- '■" .v- ■■ ! ■< , KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. A HUTTYALLEY FATALITY. When Ganger Donnehy took :. his. . dajly along, tho Hutt' Valley llailway, beHutientl. Pay wards, yesterday ipatle a sad '.discovery. ; . The. bodv of a man.'was''lying >01l .the track,'-and. it vwas Apparent. that life was gxtjnct- The police* wgre - immediately communicated with; and the body , was taken to Lower Hutt.' ; ' : It ;,iyas iubspqupntjy identified ..'as .that of ■William Kins, aU.abourer, ( employqd at Mr; Gosse's quarry. Deceased was last socn.ffit Saturday,' night, when ho, was obsorvod to illieht 'from the'- last- up tram ,at . ! Haywards rear end of the tjain. • The spot wherd the body . was ! foijnd: 'is' not' 'farjfrsm the station, .and,- it is,; supposed/'th'gi the unfortunate was ov?r and k'Uod by : the down train., St) fjj.r ; asis knciwn■:. at . present,) tho i deceased leaves no . relatives ,in , this district,' hut•-jt'.-is;stated .that:he has■ a:brother at Dennistou. ' • . • An . inquest will he held to-day at Lower putt. >■>;■■■ 7;. - ; 7 -V'./ -THROWN FROM A BICYCLE. ■■•■ As the result of his bicycle skidding; on tho tram line, a linotype operator, named Charles H. Monro, met with a painful accident on Saturday morning. Monro, , who was; .riding, to bis- home . at' Seatoun, was | thrown; heayily-. .'passing through Kilbirnifl. and. fraoturod, one of his elbows, besides being 'out about the head. After receiving attention the Kilbirnie '.Hotel, the injured Titian ,was removed :to the Hospital. Last' evening tho Hospital authorities retried'that he. was slightly improving, -hut thq injury, to the arm will probably give him iroublo for' somo time to come. , ~ A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD. (bt telegraph—special cobkespondent.) .'. Palmerston North, May 29. 1 ' H, Bnrfell, of Palmerston, had the misfortune to break'(i leg: whilo employed on I the repairing tno Royal Hotel build-1 ing. this' jnorajiig.v It appears that he was standing oil. scaffolding, and. was working : fellj with the result stated, Ho was taken to the hospital, and there rccpived the necessary medical attention. • • . . '. i DROWNED IN THE BULLER RIVER. '~ ■ {Bt TEiiqif jrn-r-ruEss association,) ! 7 Reofton, May 29. I 4 J'Qilig man named C. H. Perkins was 1 drowned last night 011 the Bullor Junction 1 (Jrpdge. The-body has beon .recovered. 77 :''\vy7 fS ..1 1: 1 I i 1 j I I j j ! i I ,