ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2992, 1 February 1917, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

« MOTORING ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Cisborne, January 31. Mr. E,. Mitchell, farmer, and Miss Ferguson were injured, in a motor accident on the Morero Road to-day. The car skidded and fell over a bank, pinning Mr! Mitchell down. Ho was severely injured. Miss Ferguson's arm wns broken. DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE. By TeleEraph-Suecial- OnrresDondent. Masterton, January 31. At the inquost on the body of John Mutrio, who fell dead in a harvest field, a verdiot of death from heart disease- was returned. SHIPMASTER INJURED. 'An accident occurred on the wharl on Tuesday afternoon, ns ft result ol whioh Captain John Backlund, mastoi of an American vessel, is now an inmate of the Hospital. Captain Backlund was superintending the dischargf of the lumber cargo which his vesse brought, and was guiding a heavy piecs of lumber into place on : the stack or tho wharf, when it swung round am caught him a violent blow on the chest -The beam then struck him on the jaw and lifted him, about four feet oft thi wharf. The inJTired man was convcyec to tho Hospital in an unconscious con : dition, suffering from- various cuts anc hruise.s, but is. expected to be able t< 'rejoin'his ship in three or four days time.