Fatalities, Etc.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 13

Fatalities, Etc.

The search for the bodies of the victims of the Buller Gorge explosion has failed to discover the slightest trace of either of the unfortunates. It is generally considered that both bodies, horribly mangled', Avere thrown into the Buller " river.

Mrs.- Maria Donovan, aged sixty years, was dashed to pieces by a railAvay train: at Thorndon, Wellington, on September 25. .. -( - > Joseph Armstrong, a married? .man, Avas struck by the falling limb of a tree AA'hile Avorking in the bush at. Orepuki, on September 28. Death Avas almost instantaneous. He leaves a AvidoAV and tAA'o children.

While engaged at work on a coal hulk in Wellington on September 26, a man named Peter Carlsen fell over 20ft. into the hold. His arm was broken and spine injured. Joseph Youngm-an, a cook, aged 60, years, was found drowned in tho Wairoa river en September 25. He had been missing for four days.

Michael Green, aged 65 years, Avas found drowned in a creek near ICohukohu. It is supposed he fell into the water during an attack of heart failure.

WESTPORT, October 1. Last night a man was seen by Thomson, a steAvard of the Anchor line Waimca, to fall off the gangway into the Buller /river. The third engineer threw a lifebelt to him, but after making a feAV splashes in the water the man disappeared. A boat out, but failed to find the missing man. No one from the Waimea is missing, but the Gertie failed to get trace of & fireman named Bugsby.;