ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 570, 27 July 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TWO DRIVERS INJURED. A traction engine caused trouble on tho Kilbirnie hill yesterday morning. The horse attached to a Chinaman's cart shied . and upset the dray, which pinned tho driver, Ngan San, to tho,ground. Thejmurcd man, who is 40yoars of age, and resides at Kilbirnie, was brought into the hospital without delay. ■ He is injured across tho back,' and'is in a somewhat serious condition. A lad; named John 'Bassett, of Maranui, also mot the engine, - with a fractious' horse. He was badly knocked about, and was admitted , to tho hospital at' about 1 p.m., suffering from' concussion oitho brain. ■• ",. ■ Mr. G. E.'Philips, a: married man residing in Todman Street,. Brooklyn, whilst returning from, a visit, to friends at Kilbirnie'last evening, missed the last- car' to- tbwji. Ho walked through l tho tunnel;,and -.when aboiit half-way through;• slipped on. the rail, and brokehis anklo. He was .attended to by Dr. Maekin, ivh'o ordered-his removal to tho hoopital. '~ • '■.••■■•■ ; :- ;\y'' ' An inquest was held by Dr. M'Arthur,, Coroner,;yesterday, to inquire- into the cir-. cumstances , attending' the : death '- of , Mrs.< Catherine Ellen- Kenny.; After the hearing of evidence a' verdfet .'was 'returned to tho effect that' deceased committed'suicide whilst temporarily insane. ' ■, : • • ' '; ' : ' DROWNED. ■■ ' (By Telegraph.—ProeeAseoclntlon.) ' ' ; Wostport, July 20. A man named Jack Johnson, a Norwegian, who came- to this, district from Grcymouth about two years ago, having left a Norwegian ship there, was drowned at Little Wanganui on "July 16, through a.boating accident.-Tho' body has not .yet been recovered. \: •' ' • RUN OVER BY ATRUCK.!. \ ',' ''■' ' '■' Auckland, July 26/ James Coyle, an elderly man, employed on the railway co-operative works at, Topuni, was ruu over by a truck,; and -killed, instantly. ■ '■■';■ : . A FALL.OF COAL.■ / '-, • y ■'.-'■•"■ : ; ; Westport, July 26.;, George Miller, a miner, was .killed, by a fall of coal in the Ironbridge- Mine; Denniston. '.-.:.'-,. . - ■; ;.■'■■■ ..■'. '.. '■ ' : ■