ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2242, 31 August 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED AT THE GROSSINC. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON. A single man 'named Frank Wilde was killed by a railway accident in the city shortly after midday on Saturday. Wilde was driving an express over tho lino at the railway crossing at Customhouse Quay and Ballance Street, and apparently failed to notice a locomotive approaching. The engine crashed into tho wagon, its occupant being killed instantly. His body was terribly mutilated, while the horse was also badly injured. Constable Crowo later arrived on the scene of the accident, and the body was .removed to the morgue. Deceased resided at 80 Austin Street, and was employed by Messrs. J. J. Curtis and Co. He came from Woirarapa.

A serious accident befell a man named Phillips in Ncwtown on Saturday afternoon. Phillips fell from a butcher's cart, and one of the wheels of the vehicle went over his head. He is now in the Public Hospital ■ suffering a double fracture of the jaw and other injuries. >He is a resident of Eintoul Street, and unmarried. Mr. H. Trevethick, who was injured at Trentham last week while schooling the steeplechaser Grit Lawless over hurdles, was reported by the Public Hospital last evening to be still unconscious. . : • The Public Hospital reported last evening that Mr. and Mrs. Midline, the parties to the recent Oriental Bay tragedy, are both improving in condition.