ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 23, 22 October 1918, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAN KILLED BY FALL OF-EARTH. Y By Telegraph,—Press Association. Diinedin, October 21. Malcolm. Ellis, aged 20, employed on Wanaka, Station, near Pembroke, was killed on Saturday by a fall of earth. A. FATAL FIRE.. ~ Auckland, October 21. Mrs. Agnes Ingram, wife of Christopher Ingram, died from injuries sustained in a tiro which destroyed her residence at Avondale on Saturday night. SUDDEN DEATH OF, A CHILD. Waimate, October 2,1. Mary M'llraith, the five-year-old daughter of William. M'llraith, farmer, Waihaorunga, complained to her mother last night of not feeling well. Her parents brought her in a car to Waimate, but by the time a doctor was reached she was dead. It is not known what caused death. Tho child had been play, ing about with her'little brother' and sister. • RETURNED SOLDIER INJURED IS GUN ACCIDENT. ■ Pahiatua, October 21. , A returned, soldier named Percy Jl'Beth Anderson was injured through a shooting accident yesterday. A gun leaning 'against a seat\ in a, motor-car was discharged and blew, away part of his left forearm and breast and lodged in the left shoulder. Anderson was recently discharged '■from Auckland Hospital, where ho had been treated for shrapnel wounds in tho right arm. FATAL WAGON ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, October 21. .Samuel,Lotf,-51 years of aje', was killed at Alexandra to-day. While driving a coal.wagon he had an epileptic fit and fell in front of the wagon, tho wheels passing over hiin. Death occurred in a few minutes.