ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ML!) OF KAURI TREE. I (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) ;. Thames, December 16, I Hohepn, a Native bushman, had big head and back seriously injured by the, j unexpected fall of n kauri tree. His ' companion bad a miracuhms escape, a j heavy limb just jjraxiiig his face. Ho* ! hena is iu the Hospital and his conv difion is serious. A fireman named Edward Wilson, belonging to the steamer Rcmucrn, was knocked down by an express at tli« corner of Manners and Cuba Streets yesterday afternoon, Wilson and another j ■man were crossing tin? street, and some- ; bow failed to see the express, which was i coining slowly down the street, driven i by John Nelson, a bottle merchant. i Both wheels of the expressed passed j over Wilson's body, Me was attended i to bv Dr. Tolmirst, and ordove'd toMho i Hospital. Oh inquiry being made at | tho Hospital last evening it was a seer- . ; tained tliat Wilson was rather badly in- i jured in the back and 'siik>. but was | progressing as well as eould bo expected, . . j Sirs. Margaret Heard, a jimiricd woman, G3 years of ago,, residing at; ] - 7 Mount Street, was admitted to the i Hospital at 5.30 last ewoitig, as the j result of an accident whereby her hip j and side were hurt, The injured ; woman slipped on a board in the backyard of her residence, and fell rather j heavily. Her injuries are not regarded ; as serious. i