TROOPER KILLED AT LAMBTON

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2379, 8 February 1915, Page 7

TROOPER KILLED AT LAMBTON

SAD ("RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A memlier the ■. Forties. Private Frederick \V. Black, was fataUy ' injured through jf f g r " » over by- a 'train at Lambton btation on Saturday 'ovoning. No ono witnessed the accideait, Black being discovered in a dying oaiidition by a coaching toiecan named' Alfred H. Hart. B1 ?°k was. found to ha frightfully injuied, both iiis legs, an aim and his band' being broken and when -discovered was lying oe the off-side of the .rails, vacated by a train which. bad left for Trentham. The dyin°- mart was placed on a .stretcher and "taken to the waiting room while Dr Henry was telephoned for. Black was breathilng his'last when Dr. Henry arrived, and expired just after ho had bSn examined. The>dy was removed to'the moa-gue. • , ■ ~ It is not' known how the accident occurred. He train from Lower Hutthad mme into the station just before the Trentham train left and it is thought that as the toes over which he trains passed were side by side. Black either jurriped off, not noticing the oncoming trivin, or in some way got entangled wfiih it and so was run over Sie driver of the tram from Lower Hutt states,' however that the line was perfectly dear when his tram entered the station. Both trains had left the station' when. Black was discovered. The deceased trooper comes from Dunedin where' he had relatives, and friends. Among his possessions m his pockets was found a receipt for a money order which lad bean sen, to Mrs. Black, of Dunedin. An inquest Will be held. A TROOPER INJURED. At an' early hour on Satardav morninjr Private Harry Dome, of the 6th (Wellington) Regiment, met with a serious accident "while engaged, in L a grass;. fire , »ear the Kaiwarra nowder magazine. While engaged in Kj s wor k w iti several guards, a number of loose Stones from a bank above became dislodged, and Dorge was struck on the head with one. He , to the Hospital, where , his skull was found to "be tactnrea _ tt Bore® was reported from tne nos evening to be progressing favourably. . FALL KROM 'A LADDER. Sidney Shears,, the young man who is at present in the : Hospital suffering from serious-injuries resulting from a fall from a ladder, was reported from the Hospital laisb 'night to be still m a serious conditionFALL KROM TRAMCJAR. Miss Ivy Richmond was admitted to the Hospital at; 10.40 p.m. on Saturday suffering from 'severe concussion of the brain, the result of a fall while alighting from a tramcar' in . Molesworth Street. . ! . . SUDDEN DEATH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedln, February 6. A' housemaid : named Margaret Hall, who --was employed at Mrs. Sargoods in Newington Avenue, died snddenlj tniS morning. She was at work as usual; yesterday,, but did not feel very well, and was found dead in bed abont. 7, o'clock this morning. Dr. Riley, _when called iif7 pronounced life ertinct. Death is supposed to have been due to heart failure. ■ - "