ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATALITY AT OAMARU. By Telegraph.-Press Association. Oamaru, May 4. The body of Mrs. Elizabeth Bill, wife of a well-known resident, aged 69 years, was found in the Oamaru Creek to-day. She left home about 10 a.m. lor a walk, and is belioved to have met her death accidentally. MISHAP ON A SAWMILL RAILWAY. Taumarunui, May 1. A man named Charles Anderson nad a narrow escape from death at Raurinui on Thursday. He was driving a sawmill locomotive, hauling logs over a bridge, when tho front wheels of tho ellKino left tho rails, and the engine and drivor fell 80ft. down a gully. Aiidtrson, though badly scalded and bruised, crawled up tho gully, and when found was taken to the Taumarunui Hospital.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180506.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 194, 6 May 1918, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 194, 6 May 1918, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in