ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

TWELVE. YEAR-OLD girl run V OVER. BY TRAIN. NO BLAME ATTACHABLE TO KAIL WAYAIEN. CPreao Aaaooiation.r CHRLSTcHoECIi, Fob. G. “That Mary Isabel Clark, aged 12, 'mot'• her death as the result ol being run over by the Parnassus Christchurch train on January 26. 1930, no blame, being attached Hie the railway employees” was the finding oi‘ the coroner, Mr. E. M. Mosley, at .the inquest ths afternoon.

Tho only witnesses called wen, Thomas Dick, engine driver ol the train. 1 and Claude All'reld, James ■Harris, his fireman. Dick stated that lie whistled three short, blasts approaching the crossing. lie <• i<i not see tile, girl as lie was licking out on the right-hand side The fireman saw her And called m him to stop the train. He instantly applied tile brakes but the ' gill was struck, and the engine passed ever her before it could be stopped.

The fireman, in evidence, staled that the girl ran from the left band side on to Cm” track. Clear!' she haul not; heard or seen the train, probably because, her view would be iobscured by a corrugated iron fence. Both witnesses agreed that ‘he crossing was reasonably open mu and was not considered dangerous. DROWNED IN THE SURF NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY’S END (Press AssooiationJ DUNEDIN. Feb. 6. A fatality occurred at St. Kiklu Beach this afternoon, when a nine-year-old hoy named AVi'liam Kerr was drowned i’ll the surf. There are safety zones marked on the beach b.v flags but many of tho bathers had ignored these and were bathing in a. rathei dangerous rip. Kerr evidently got into difficulties, and was carried out to sea. A life-line was quickly manned, but Hi© first two men to go out "•mid not find the hoy's body. Then it was seen floating about 300 yards nub and two young men set out, one bringing in the body. Life was found to lie extinct, and the body was taken to- the morgue.

BO ATM A N DR OWN ED. (Press Associations WESTPORT, Feb. G. A young man, J. de Grout, a recent arm al in tae Dominion, who was employed by the Public Work*; Department as a boatman at Tu'oru'a railway construct.on camp, was drowned in the Duller mer this morning. U is stated that tie Grool tuok a party of men across the rnei ,n a beat and returned later. Bushmen oil the other side of the rivet saw do Grout struggling in Lie Hater and h.s boat tied to the bank. It- is surmised he overbalanced and fell in, being carried down by the current.

FATAL DIVE ON TO BOULDER. ,I’ieHj Association./ DARGA VI LLE, Ecu. C. The annual schools’ picnic held at I’ienic Island yesterday v,as injured ■>y an uruortumite accident which ended fatally tais mormng. At the .Rami is a stream in which is a swimming pool. On arrival at the picnic grounds, shortly after 11 a.in., a young man, Norman I itzhonry, 20, a baker’s assistant, with a number of-others, was swimming itt the pool, wiiic.i had changed its formation since tho previous year, and unbeknown to the swimmer contained a large (number <A boulders. !'itziienry dived from a bank several ieet li gh into the pool and struck his head. He came to the surface, and ji s companions thought at first Ids actions were only in lun, but soon realised he had been severely injured. He was immediately taken from the water, and received attention at a nearby farmhouse. Medical aid was summoned from Dargaville, ana ho was then taken to Te Koporou Hospital, where he rallied, hut had a relapse during the night and passed away in the early hours of this morning.

Who pays the bill for the injured: Consult the Standard Insurance Company for full protection.—C. G Bloore, chief agent; S. G. Northt focal manager.—(Advt.)