ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 629, 5 October 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

!; V SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT., ; V; " [ , V:': (By-Tclctrrapli-Prcße Association. '.', '■ ''■'■'.'< :■''■■';■■'' U^; I '. Dunodiri, October 1. ■ A single man named David Manyaged about 50 years, was tho victim.of a serious accident on the railway at Sawyers Bay to-night. Man , ,, who lives at Port Chalmers, was proceeding home, and as tho train. started from the Saw. .y'ers Bay station he either attempted •to step off the carriago platform or fell off, with' tho :result that ho wasrun over.iboth-.thighs being badly 'crushed.'-. Ho. was immediately; taken, to tho.> hospital, whero it' was found necessary. to amputate both legs above the knee. ■ r

t EATING.' PRESERVED PINEAPPLE. { ; ; : -v. '." ' '/■■:'-. 'October 4. ' Medical evidence in regard to the death' of an eight-year-flld girl,;, a. daughter of Mr. Frederick W. Leese, was to the effect that.it hail been causet. by irritant poison. ■ Deceased ate a lot of preserved pineapple and-two other children ato a smaller quantity.' All were very ill. Two recovered, and a fourth child, who did' not ; eat ■ anj of the pineapple,,• was hot ill. The inqnos; .wos.adjourned to receive the bacteriologist's, report..: Mri ■■ Sweet said < ni,ahy people thought they wore suffering from-pto-maine poisoning when it was really bacterial poisoning. ' . '-■' .'.■•.•.".''■•:• - .... ,» ; ;

; ; ;\SAD END TO A FISHING PAETY..; ' ''•':■- ■'>''.■■: < : :-.'V" ■•'■'■-■ Auckland, October 4.' ' Matthew Ramsay M'lntyre, aged*2l,* a eingle man, and a, cabinetmaker* by - * trade,' was drowned, on Snrday, off: Rangitoto. M'lntyre aud four *other* weroin a launch fishing, a mile off the .shore, when H'lnfyro' slipped' and fell overboard. Efforts at,rescue by the other occupants of the launch capsized tho boat, and allwere precipitated into the* water. They clung; to tho launch, till she' sank, and' then started to swim nshoro. • Maoris:put-off in a boat, from the shore, and rescued all the m . hnt * M'fntyre.** M'lntyre was . a sergeant 'of N0...3 Garrison Artillery, and'the best gun his company. ,■ , ; ■.: :; . ■• .■:■;.■';; ■/■" ,GUN : fatality:; *' ; : ; ; ■;..; r-*.., * ■■'■'■ •- ■: '; '**■ .„,, ■:, i Auckland, October.'.'*.'-*' ■ James floidfcrd, by. .occupation a tailor, was snooting -Willi another man from Waipu, when he was killed by the accidental -discharge'-of .a gun. vDeath was almost instantaneous. ■