ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2321, 1 December 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

: CUT TO PIECES BY A TRAIN. L A Press Association message, from. Palmerston North, received at an early hour this morning, states that a man named' Connor,, a' surfaceman in the service of: the Railway Department, was cut to pieces last' night by the Dannevirke train! Eight trucks'passed over the man, who was apparently lying across the metals as the train came upon him. He was on holiday leave, fend it is believed he had been to the Peilding races. . FALLEN ON BY A YOUNG HORSE. (By Telesraph.—Tress Association.) Inveroarglll, November 30. John Marshall, a shepherd employed on Mount Linton station, was admitted to the hospital suffering from a broken leg. He had been breaking in a young horse, which had reared and fallen on him.; After tho acoident he had to be brought'fifty-five miles by motor-car be- 1 foro. lie received medical attention. ; DEATH OF A BABY. Eltham, November SO. Thomas Sagor, the 22-months-old son of Gordon Sager, of Te Roti, met with a fatal accident on Saturday afternoon. He was playing around a plough and pulled the implement over. The handle pinned the child to the ground by the throat and dislocated the neck. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned, SUICIDE. IN AN HOTEL. Auokland, November 80. ■The body of Percy Mason, supposed to be a labourer, was found in a room in the Imperial Hotel on Sunday with a gunshot wound in the head. It is supposed lie committed suioido with a revolver. Papers in his pockets showod he had an account in the Post OiEce Savings Bank at Gisborne, and was recently at Tolaga Bay.