ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A NASTY ACCIDENT.

While engaged in cleaning the wia dows of the Rosa Tea Rooms, above tha office of the Commercial Union Co'mj pany, in Grey Street, yesterday, Mii chael Joseph Noon, an employee of th< Vacuum Cleaning Company, fell thirty feet to the ground, through tho laddei on which he was standing swerving. Fortunately for Noon, his fall was broken by the telegraph wires. Dr. Henry was called to attend him, and found him to bo suffering from fractured thigh-bone and; wrist and injuries to his nose. Noon. was removed to the ( Hospital, where he was reported -last night to be in about the same condition.' as when he was admitted. V Noon is; . forty-five years of age, .is married,'and! lives in No. 6Epum Street. 1 : : DEATH OF HERBERT MARTEN. (By Tdejrraph.—Press Association.) invercargill, February'll. ■ Herbert-Martini who was seriously ' injured through a railway truck knocking him down and passing over his legs., at the Bluff this morning, expired b&-j fore reaching the Southland Hospital.' Both limbs were so badly crushed that amputation would have been necessary.-' Martin was placed aboard the 12.20, p.m. train,' but passed away on the joumeyi to. town. Deceased - was a bachelor,; 68 years of age,' and at one. time was a 1 . Southland representative ; cricketer.. MISSIONARY DROWNED,' .. Auckland, February 11. • A . private cable message announoeS) that .the Rev. W.-F. Long was' droivned,' ait Norfo'k Island while trymg to save! the life of one of the mis" sioa boys. ,i ■ KILLED WHILE UNLOADING . ; STORES. - ■' Croymouth, February 11. . Joseph Noble, a single man, aged 39 . years, was killed while engaged as a surfaceman unloading'stores for the ~ river protection work. /It appears' a?'. gang was in the act of tipping an extra large, boulder, 1 when' the truck, over- ; , turned. 1 Two other men were severely,.' but not .seriously, injured. . . PLATELAYER KILLED.; Talhape, February 11. This morning a heavy engine on-ita . way from Taihape to Tarimarunui ran into a jigger on the line a mile from' Taihape, and M. S. Thomas,, a plate-■ layer, was knocked off the jigger and' killed. . Deceased was about thirty years' of age. He leaves a* widow and a six--months-old baby. • RUN OVER BY A TRUCK. , Inveroarglli, February 11. . . Herbert .Martin,'a clerk.in' the rail« , way, was run over by: a thick on the Bluff wharf to-d&jr. He'was sheltering, from a heavy wind under a }ine .or; wagons, and did not'hear the-whistle ofj the shunting engine. He was knocked'' - down, the ? wheels passing over bothj legs and inflicting other' injuries. His* .. condition is critical. i ;