OCCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2432, 10 April 1915, Page 9

OCCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

, DOWN' BY A TRAMOAR. i In endeavouring, to catch a Seatounibound car, Mr. A. Clark, of Miramar, (was knocked down by an incoming ffcrall Bay car on Thursday. He sustained a fractured left arm and a numfbsp of cuts and bruises. After beinc •attended to by. Dr. Tolhurst, he was [taken to his home in Miramar. jTHURSDAY'S RAILWAY FATALITY. | (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) i -ir ' • „ -E'tfam, April 9. Miss Winnie Broad, tlie victim in yesterday's railway accident, was a sister-m-la,w of Mr. Lindsay Weir, solicitor, of the firni of Syffle and Weir, and daughter of Mr. A. C. Broad, a wellknown business man and Temperance advdeate in Dunedin. She, along with her mother, had been visiting her sister m Eltham, and left per mail train yesterday morning, -en route for Dunedin, her mother remaining here. She Jvas-26 years of age. i THROWN OUT OF A TRAP; Hokltlka, April 9. . As the result of their horse-breaking /through the Toad on Ross Road yesterday aiternoon, the Rev. Mr. Monaghan and his mother were thrown out of a trap. The Rev. Mr. Monaghan escaped with severe bruises, but his mother had her right arm broken at the-wrist and sustained concussion of the brain. Her injuries are severe, though not dangerous. DEATH FROM BURNS. . Hokitlka,/April 9. vl i?" i V mraener - of. Stafford died in the hospital on Tuesday as the result 5t burns caused by falling into a fireplace <i> week before. She was iu r cd seventy-five vears. ° !■ ' v I A IN ARROW ESCAPE. i , Nelson, April 9. ■ On' Easter Monday a young man ."named ltoy 21 years °of ago, Ue'ft' a camp on Rabbit Island to go°to Richmond, riding across tlie channel at low water. His horse later turned up 'at Richmond, but no trace could be found of Bateup, although search parties had been out all tlie week. To-day Bateup was found nearly dead from exhaustion and exposure, br.t otherwise uninjured. He is progressing favourably, but is unable vet. to give an account of what happened to him.