ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press AssociatHm. Blenheim, February 27., Thomas Johnson May, aged 67 3 a builder and an old resident of the district, mot with a trap accident, to-day, and died two hours later.
MAN KILLED AT THE SUMMIT/ ; Simpson A. Auld, a surfaceman in' the employ of tho Railway. Department, married and with throe children, was accidentally killed at the Summit by being rim over by a train. Tha facts as gathered from the police arc' that Auld on returning from his work last evening alighted from the train which stopped close to his houso. There was a goods train at the station also, that was being shunted, and just as Auld crossed the line the goods tram backed out on tho shunt, the unfortunate- man was knocked down and 15 trucks passed over him. The body was brought into the city, • and is now ra tho morgue. An inquest will be held..
Frank Garland, a married man, living at 22 Duppa Street, was admitted to tho'hospital shortly .after midnight last evening, suffering from a dislocated shoulder, due to » fall front-an express at Petone.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 6
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189ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 6
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