ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 53, 26 November 1919, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

■ In negotiating the Taita Gorge Eond yesterday morning r motor vehiclo ran over the side of the road down a steep bank, and into the river. 20 feet below. No particulars were available last night ■as to whether there were any'passengers in the vehicle or whether any injuries were sustained by the driver. It is Burmised that the vehicle was endeavouring to pass another when the car went over the bank. A man named Leo Conway, who resides at 235 Thomdon Quay, while working in the railway yards on Mondny, was knocked down by a shunting train aud received a cut on the shoulder which necessitated his removal to tho hospital. He was yesterday reported to bo doing fairly well. . •■ j ,_, SUDDEN DEATH. . 'By .Telegraph-Press- Association. • WoodviNe, November 25. Marian Carnahan, a widow, and an old resident of Dunedin, arrived yesterday with her daughter] At about 9 p.m., while conversing with her daugh- % ter, she suddenly collapsed and expired. , ... NINE HOUSES DESTROYED. By Telograpu-Presß Association Dunedin, November 23. . A fire broke out at 8.30 to-night in a slablo 'belonging to M... Stovonson, contractor, situnted at Anderson's Road, resulting in the dosti-uction of nine horses,' also the, loss of harness and considethblo rJnmaga to the plant. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The horses, plant, and harness- were insured in the Atlas office, but the amount was not ascertainable. to-night'.' MAN KILLED BY FAILING DERRICK Bt Tolograph-Prcci AMoclatlon. Nelson, November 25. At an inquest to-day on Percy Gilbertson, who was killed at tho Port yesterday by the breaking of a sling during ■ tho unloading of lilio scow Knpuau, uhe Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death caused by a splice on the wire derrick rope drawing, tho derrick falling , on deceased. No blame was attached to anyone.