ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2983, 22 January 1917, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PECULIAR INCIDENT. , SOLDIER SERIOUSLY INJURED. Sergeant A. Ritchie, attached to the Quartermaster's Stores, Trentham, was admitted to the Military Ward of the Wellington Hospital about i a.m. yesterday, suffering from severe injuries about the head and in the leg. It appears that Ritchie, who is a married man with several children, and well known in Wanganui, was in the city on week-end leave. He stayed at the Dominion Private Hotel, and was believed on Saturday night to hare retired to bed. He mas found by a; policeman yesterday morning lying on tho streot in an unconscious condition. How the injuries were sustained is not yet known. Ritchie was last night reported to be* conscious, but in a serious condition.

Robert Carmiehaol was on Saturday morning working on Clyde Quay Wharf, when he was injured in tho left foot by a piece of falling timber. He was removed to tho Hospital about' 11.30 a.m. Thomas Waklermoth, a message boy, whose parents rosido at Crescent Terrace. Khandallah, fell off his bicycle oii! Saturday, and sustained a broken leg.He was admitted to tho Hospital ati 11.40 p.m. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. By Telegraph—Press Association, Westport, January 21. Isaac Champion, a miner, of Stock* ton, and a widower, aged 53 years, was found dead in tho cattle stops, neas Granity this morning, having been run over last night by a train. His right leg was smashed from the knee to th« ankle and his left foot and hand mutilated. No one on tho train was aware of the accident. ' BODY FOUND IN AUCKLAND HARBOUR. ' Auckland, January 21'. The body of Peter Cornwall wag found this morning in tho harbour.a letter which was found on tho body the deceased apparently cams from Taumarunui.