ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1290, 20 November 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Pre6s Association.) Christchurch, November 19. A peculiar railway collision occurred on Saturday afternoon at the Park Road crossing of the double lino between Christchurch and Addington. A train from Addington to Christchurch had passed, when the driver of a grocer's cart, unaware that a train from Christchurch was going south, was about to pass on to the further set of rails, and failing to appreciate tho crossing keeper's signals, ossayed to cross. The engine struck tho cart "in the middle, and the driver of it was thrown out on his head, and token to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition. Ho is now in n fair way to recovery. No bones wero broken. The horse was carried some distance by the engine, but escaped practically unhurt. RUN OVER BY A DRAY. Hastings, November 18. Maude Victoria Graham, five years old, tho daughter of Roland Victor Graham, was run over by a dray yesterday and killed instantaneously. At an inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was returned, iio blame beina attached to tho driver. A rider was added to the effect that drivers of vehicles should bo careful not fo allow passing children to play about their traps, and that parents and teachers be recommended to warn children of the dangers arising from interfering with vehicular traffic. A GRUESOME FIND. Dunedin, November 19. One of the Harbour Board dredges while working near Rattray Street Wharf this morning brought to the surface a portion of a human body. Tho legs from tho Knees down, the head and upper part of the body were missing, and there was nothing to assist in tho identification of the remains, which bad evidently been in tho v B i^ mc " Judging by the size ot the bones, the remains are supposed to be thoso of a strongly-built man. A TRAP ACCIDENT. Timaru, November 19. Ite nccd of a. by-law to compel tho use of lights on vehicles using the busy country roads by niclit was illustrated by an accident near Geraldinc to a party of three cyclists, who all collided with a norso and trap in tho dark. Tho cvcli&ts wero more or less bruised. The * horse swerved. and all tho occupants in the trap —threo ladies, a man, and a child—were thrown out. Tho man's collarbone was nT £ ll> 0110 a bad cut over the t head, and the others csca"nod with bruises. EX-DETECTIVE BENJAMIN. ~ L , Pa . lmerst °n North, November 1!). At the inquest concerning the death of ©.'i-Detectivo Benjamin the verdict returned was suicide whilo temporarily insane. DEATH OP A CIVIL SERVANT. Alfred Thomas Daniel, 32 vears old, n clerk employed in tho Education Department, died at his residence, '17 Nairn Street, between midnight on Saturday and II o'clock Oil Sunday morning. He is supposed to lif.vo suffered from heart disease.