ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

pVim. BY A TItAIN. > ?:■'. AT ISLINGTON. ■,-s;'fßjr'/- , JJBJcKt*ph.-1 , J , -e»a AnSOutMlon.) Ghfistchwrch, Ajwil 9. ■ : A"shoelviriK fatality occurred in the Oftrly Hours of tliis morning, Timothy O'Connor, a lnboiirer, residinj; at Islington; lusi«;f his life through being mil over b> * railway engine. Tho fatality occurred short'y after 1 a.m., about half a, iiiilo south' of Islington railway -Elation. ■: .Tho driver of tl» midnight goods train from Christchurch to Aslifiurbn. s)!(7rlly after leaving Islington noticed :i man apparently lying across tlio rails. Ho immediately applied tho emerge-ucy brakes, bat unfortunately tlio train Mpponod to bo a very heavy one. and hecould HOC poll tip in time. The result was that tho unfortunate nun B'as dragged seme forty yards under tho engine, and his body was terribly mangled. j)cath must have been instantanaoti-s. [O'Connor was ft. single- man, &nd was well town ia lelington. ;>. .woman Found dead. Ounedin., April 10.. ' A woman, named Alary Hanley, who was employed interniifctoiitly as a laundress at Ashburn HaJlj was found dead on tlio road about half a ailo from the insiiitution yesterday afterneolu.Sho |-ivas working as usual yesterday, but another employDo who went along tho road shortly after sho left found h-er Ijing dead. Death is believed to be duo to ■ natural causes, I -SEAMAN'S THIGH CRUSHED. ' Cfrristchurcrr, April 9. When a collapsible boat was being lowered from tho steamer Wafoifle this morning, a block and, iathfo carried away through the valve ef %e winch blowing out, and av able seaman named Tato was struck by the falling gear aud ' sustained a- badly crushed thiglrand had his thunib nail torn off.