ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1226, 7 September 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[ 4 CITY LINEMAN'S FALL. At midday yesterday Charles Maddock, nil employee of the City Council's eloetric light department, and a resident of .Bcrhnmpore, met with a serious accident through falling off a ladder while engaged fixing wire? to a telegraph polo. Apparently ho slipped and fell (o the ground (a distance of about 12 feet), and sustained injury to his spine. He was attended liv Drs. Purdy and Ilolmes, and afterwards removed to the hospital, LITTLE GIIiL HURT. A little girl named Clara £rott, living in King Street, was knocked down bv t tram car in Adelaide Road yesterday. Slk, received cuts about the forehead, but was not spriou.-ly injured. YOUNG MAN KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Ashburton, September G. A young man named James Clifford, aged twentv-two years, yon of Patrick Clifford, of Winclimore, was dragged under the wheel of a heavily-laden farm dray this morning on iho Ashhurton traffic bridge. as a result of the horsos bolting. A wheel passed over .his body, and tlio man died on the way to the hospital. FOUND DROWNED. Auckland, September 5. Patrick Walsh, aged seventy, who has been missing from his home at Tualcau since August 21, has been found drowned, in the harbour.