ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATALITY AT BIDEFORD. (By Telegraph.— Snecial CorresDomlent.) Masterton, October 17. Wtn. Bryant, 80 j-cars of aj:e, was found dead in Hie Taneru River n.t Bideiord at :m early hour tliis morning. Deceased had evidently slipped on tho bank of tlio river, ami in falling had struck his head on a log and been rendered lincinsciciis, and them drowned. At tho inquest this afternoon a verdict was returatei of death by misadventure. Deceased had been employed on Bovriands Station for forty years. VERY PATITF/riC EVENT. Auckland, October 17. A deaf .ind dumb girl, a-fr.?d five years, named Eunice Costley. was knockcd'clown by a train and severely injured on the railway crossing at Nowin.-u-kot (.his afternoon. She resides with her grandfather near th? crossin;;, and had started to'go on a visit to her aunt. She was crossing the line when tho ICainara train camo along, and she was knocked down by tho engine and rendered unconscious. She was taken to tho hcspihil, whoro it was found that k!io was suffering from ■I-μ concussion of tho brain. Th'n braku vrr 0 .applied when tho child was iirst gcen, but the distance was too short to enable the train to pull up. UNLOADING A LOBET. J. Gleeson, ft married man, SO y«ars of agf, residing at 220 Tinnkori Eoad, was iiainitted to the hospital yesterday siift'eriii!? from a comiiound fructuro of an ankle. The accident was caused through a cask slipping oil' a lorry which Glecson was unloading.