ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN. By 'I'elcjrarli—Press Association Feilding, November 14. The miin who fell from a moving train an<) wis killed yesterday afternoon was Alexander Woods, carpenter, single, aged 70. He wnsi on board the Main Trunk train, and tried to leave afttr the train had started. Constable M'Donell saw the. man's intention from .a distance, and rushed to prevent an accident, Iju( could not reach him in time. Woods fell between two carriages right across the rails, and ! was decapitated, MAN'S THROAT CUT. By Tcleeriuph—Press Association. Hamilton, November 14. A young man named C. ]!. Cox applied for work at the Matangi Glaxo Factory yesterday and was told to start this morning. He took a room at a boardinghonse last night, and was found by a member of the staff with his throat eul. He was ibrought to tlie Waikato Hospital, and is progressing favourably. The wound is not serious. He is a returned soldiei arid haa no relatives in the Dominion. AN INJURED JOCKEY. Christchnrch, November 14. The report from the Hospital oil Wednesday regarding tlio injuries rcceive<l by P. W. Ellis, through tlio 'fall of Mandrake in the Randolph Handicap, nt Riccnrton, was very wide of the mark. The only injuries ho suffered were a slight fracture of the skull and a broken collarbone. Ho is progressing well, and has been conscious siitco the evening of the accidont,'and to-night is reported to bo welt on tho way to recovery.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 44, 15 November 1919, Page 6
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244ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 44, 15 November 1919, Page 6
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