ACCIDENTS AND FACILITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2569, 17 September 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FACILITIES

, ; TROOPER. SERIOUSLYi HURT. Private Archibald Hood, the Bth Reinforcements, mot with a accident near JKaiwarra on Wednesday evening. "Ho was standing ijm the platform of the troop train thiat had left Lambton Station for Tren'£iham, when tlie movelnent of the train *it tho curvo of the line approaching Ko liwarra cd him to be thrown off lihe platform. His right leg was thrown i jji fhe path of the wheels of the traiii, and was crushed to such an extent that it liad to be amputated. No one v.jitnessed the accident, and tlio unfortunate trooper, after calling out several J rimes, had to crawl .along tiie "line to-iv.irds a house some distance away. He inias eventually found oy two men, and o'oiiveyed to the hospital, which lie reacliExl at 2,15 a.m. Hood was reported from the hospital last night to be favourably, Tho injured trooper, wl/ho is 29 years of age, is a son of Mr. G ptorge Hood, of Albert Road, Devonport, ANOTHER SOLDIE R HURT. • Private D. Bolton, a ; driver iii tlio Artillery, was kioked un tier the chin by a horse at Trenfham ycisterday. His injury was such that ho had to be removed to tho hospital, and was admitted to that institution) /at 9.15 o'clock last night. , i RAILWAY OROSSINici ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Pres? Dannevirhe,. September 16. An accident occurre(].\;»t the Allardice Street railway crossing;! at midday. L. Stein and R. 13. well-known business residents, xrepce riding homo, the former being on_ a [ ! motor-cycle and the latter in the sidecar, when tliey collided with the exp:r ess train. The cycle was carried over' the cattle, stop, and Stein and Varton. nvere both ejected from the car. The fritter is unconscious, and it is feared bis skull is fraotured. Stoin has swistained a broken leg and other injuries).