ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATALITY FEARED. (By 'l'olcernph.-Special Correspondents Palmcrston, October 29. What appears to be another lamentablo drowning accident occurred yesterday about noon. Two brothers named Dti. resiie, sons of Jlr. A. H. Dufresne, builder, aged ten and eight years, and another boy were playing on the bank of llie jMangaono Stream, near tho new saloyards on the Boundary Road, l'almerston. ilie elder of the Dufresne boys and tho other loft Carl Abraham Dufresne on (he bank oi tho stream, while thev wont away elsewhere. On returning tin. boy had disappeared, and the two lads saw what they thought w;us his lx)dy floating down (lie stream. They at once gave the alarm, and search was made, but, up till tha present, no trace has been found. Tliero was about Gft. of water where the bovs allege they saw what they thought to be tho body. Tho police and starch parties liavo been out all to-dav, but without result, RATHER PLUCKY DRIVER. - Mastcrton, October 27. A driver named Ralph Fraler, in th 4 employ of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, sustained a ixia fracture of the leg while carrying a bag ot manure at Taratahi to-day. Ho showed groat pluck -after tho accident, and succeeded in unharnessing tho three horses which he was driving, and tying them to a fence. Mr. M'Lauchlin, a married man, about 55 years of age, residing in Holloway Itoad, was admitted to tho Hospital between midnight and ono o'clock this morning sulfering from a severe cut in tho head,_ tho result of a fall occasioned by his being seized with a fit, an ailment to which ho is subject. When admitted ho was very weak through loss of blood. TERRIBLY MUTILATED. (By Telecranh.-I'ross A66aclatlon.l Auckland, October 27. A man named Arthur Hickey was found dead on the railway line at Tuakau. Ho had evidently been run over by the Main Trunk train last night. Tho body was terribly mutilated. NARROW ESCAPE. Oamaru, October 28. A young man driving a butcher's van had a narrow escapo near Georgetown this morning. When noaring tho railway crossing ho was unable to hold tha horse, which bounded across the rails in front of a train. The engine caught the back of the cart, badly smashing it, and broke the horse's leg. The driver miraculously escaped with a few bruises.

DROWNED IN THE TURAKINA. Marton, October 29. Mr. F. Schwass, farmer of Turakina Vnlley, was drowned in the Turakina River on Saturday. lie was driving across in a dray, which capsized. His companion drifted to some overhanging willows, and was rescued. The hono was drowned. So far, Mr. Schwass'a body has not been recovered. OCCURRENCE AT FRENCH PASS. SURVEYOR SERIOUSLY HURT. Nelson, October 2!). Mr. D'Arcy Irvine, Government Staff Surveyor, met with a serious accident at the French Pass on Thursday, sustaining a fracturo of the skull, through being struck by a falling tree. He was brought by launch to Nelson, and now lies in a grave condition in tho ho». pital.