ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2885, 19 May 1925, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

IS IK XT TO DEATH. Hastings, .May IS. William Speer*, aged do, a single man, holding a small area oil land in tin l Tomoana loealily, was Hound -burnt lo death in his three-roomed cottage, which was completely destroyed by lire this morning. When the body was recovered from the llames the legs were burnt off and the head and trunk unro;>gnisable. A portion of his dollies was recovered. From documents found outside the house it is thought lo be a ease of suicide. A CLOSE CALL. .MOTOR OAK ACCIDENT. Christchurch, May 18. A sensational accident occurred on Clifton Hill, Sumner, yesterday. a three-sealer ear driven by .1. Keid refused lo answer (lie brake, ami burst through a fence and slid over a cliff. -lust when the ear was ;i few yards off a sheer drop of ■JOO feel, b’eid grabbl'd the wheel ami slewed it into some macroearpa trees, where it slopped undamaged. Many people were on the .road below at the time.

LOU If Y COES OVER BANK. Ashburton, May 18. A sensational accident occurred a; Lake Coleridge on Saturday evening, a motor lorry falling over a bank a hundred feel deep, turning two or three somersaults, into the shallow water of the lake at the .liver works intake. 'flic driver, F. A. Barrett, storekeeper, of llororata, went over with the lorry, but miraeulouslv escaped njury. The lorry was irreparably damaged. The accident is described jo the lorry being inadvertently pul into reverse gear. UFN OVER BY TRAIN. Hawera. May IS. While attempting to leave a special race train from Hawera at Mokoia station on Saturday night, A Williams, a single man, fell on i lie track before the train stopped, and a wheel of a passenger ear passed over a foot, severing the toes. IT(> was taken to tin* hospital at Pa tea.