ACCIDENTS AND FATALITES

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 923, 23 June 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATAL ITES

MAN KILLED AT WHATATUTU. Last evening Scrgt. Sidle!!- received a telephone me-- .g“ from \Vh itarotu stating th:e t ■ mg mu :i..*Lied -James Jackson mid bet u bilk r.t f h it place whilst engaged busiiitiiiug mi Messrs Barron’s property. The ate: It or. which was caused tnrougn a t.ih.ug tree, oe.-i.rr u at .-o;o, and .1. eks.m died short v aficrw ivds. No • p n ticui-irs of :ue accident were revived in town la-.,, evening. Deceased h.ais from Hawke’s 1:1 y, and has not been long in the district, lie has a brother working nr Mr Barton’s. loergl. Siddelis arranged ior Mr Caesar, J.l’., to go to Whatatuiu this morning for the purpose of holding an inquest. SIMILAR ACCIDENT AT WAIKAREMOANA. Information was received by the police lost evening that a man named Saunders had been killed at Lake Waikaremoana

through a tree failing across his whurc. No particulars of the fatality are to hand. The Wairoa police are arranging for an inquest to be held to-day. (Per Press Association.) Napier, last night.

A telegram received here to-night states

that a man named Henry Simmonds was killed at Waikaremoana by a tree failing on his whare, crushing him. Deceased was a married man, his wife aud family living in Napier.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.

At six o’clock last evening Mr Charles Dunlop, tho well known commission agent, had a narrow escape from drowning ill till) Turangamti liver. Bv some means he made his way into the river, mid his cries for help were heat'd by some passers-by. Messrs C. P. Davies and J. Stewart were amongst the fiist to reach the river, and they discovered Mr Duuiop, out of his depth, near tho bow of the steamer Noko, on the Kaiti side of the river. After some trouble Mr Dunlop's rescuers got him out of the water and into a small boat, iu which be was conveyed to tho town wharf. Sergeant Siddelis arrived on the scene early, and took Mr Dunlop to the barracks, where he was shown every attention, and later in the evening was quite restored, being none the worse for his experience. MAN CUT TO PIECES.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, last night

A man was cut to pieces about 1330yds north of Beach Street siding, Waikouaiti, by the 4 o’clock train from Dunedin. It is believed tho man must have gone to sleep on the line. A fisherman from Puketiraki was refused a ticket at Waikouaiti station, us he was intoxicated, and it is supposed he started to walk home, aud sat down and went to sleep. The body was so mutilated that the railway officials could not say if the body was that of tbe man who was refused a ticket. SHOOTING FATALITY.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, last night.

At the inquest on the body of Davis McGrane the evidence sliuwod that tho brothers had just had supper and were going to bed, when Edwin, seeing a pea rific which Davis had loaded and placed behind the door, picked it up to look at, not knowing it was loaded, when it went off, and the brother, ivho was standing on the stairs, was struck by the bullot, which entered his cheek, and passing upwards killed him instantly. A verdict was returned that Davis McGrane met his death by tho accidental discharge of a pearifle by misadventure, contributed to by himself leaving the ritlo loaded, and no blame attached to the brother Edwin.

By Telegraph —Press Association. Invercargill, last night,

At the inquost on Henry Currie, a minor killed by a fall of coal at Nightcaps, evidence was given that the mine was carefully timbered aud considered to be quite safe. A verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attuchaule to anyone, and a rider was added recommending that bars bo usod in preierenoe to props iu places near an outcrop whore the backs run parallel to tho wall. The body of Honald Forbes, nightwatchman, who Iras been missing since the oth iust., was found in a bush at North Invercargill on Sunday aftornoon. Dceeesed, who had been iu ill-health, had evidently fallen exhausted aud expired without a struggle. Ashburton, last night.

A gun accident happened at Elgin on Sunday, During the übsence of his parents a boy aged ID named Jury presented a gun at his sister, aged 8, and playfully threatened to shoot her. The gun happened to ho loaded, aud the little girl received the snot in the arm. Sho was taken to the hospital aud tho arm amputated below the shoulder.

Westport, last night.

Thomas Lucas, aged 26, fell from the road to tho railway hue, 12 feet, last night, at Mokihinau, and broke liis neck. He was quite sober. The night was very dork. Deceased was a returned trooper and was employed at the State colliery.