ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2874, 12 September 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

' * —, — BOY DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunetiln, September 11. . Gordon Fisher, aged 15 years, was drowned by being pinned under' ••. cart which capsized over the bank .r the river at Ngapuna. FALL FROM A HORSE. Christchurch, Septembe ;1. Lily Jane Sunkell, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a well-known Waiau farmer, was killed to-day. A horse she was riding bolted, and she was thrown, her head striking a telegraph pole. She died in a few minutes. :

Tho. wheel of a bicycle running .- the groove of a tramway rail was the causo of a young man named Manderson, a shunter at the Thorudon Bailway Station, being admitted to the Hospital last night, suffering from bad cuts on the head and the left shonlder. Manderson was crossing a street when his wheel ran in the rail, and the bicyclo skidded. John Welch,' a painter, living at if<j. 6 Lloyd Street, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday with his right leg broken below "the knee. • Welch, wk> is employed by W. Butler, contractor, Day's Bay, fell.to the ground, through tho ladder oh which he was at work slipping. The body of Alfred Potto was found floating in the Wanganui River at Aramoho at about noon on Sunday. Deceased was about 70 years of age, and | was at one time a prominent.' horse owner ,and trainer. He was last seen about August 22. A brother of the deceased resides at Helcusvillo. Tho body of a man named John Mullins was found in a pool of Water alongside, the railway line near Bunnythorpe yesterday morning. It is thouglrt that he had been lying dead about three weeks. Robert Ewart, carrier, of Simmon, died at the Palmerston Hospital at 6 o'clock on Sunday night as tho result of injuries received through a cart passing over bim at Shannon on Saturday. It appears that deceased was opening a pate when his horse became restive. Ho tried to stop it, and fell under the wheels. It is understood that Mr. Ewart was a married man with four children.