ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 18838, 3 June 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DEATH FROM BURNS. A DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE. (Per United Press Association.) WAIROA, June 2. The police received information on Tuesday that a distressing occurrence befell a Maori scrub-cutter's camp at Waihui, which resulted in the death from shock following severe burns of a Maori gild named Tawai Wie Hone, aged IG. It appears that (he family retired to rest on Sunday, leaving a fire burning, a common practice with natives. The night was very .cold. About 1 a.m. the father was suddenly roused up, finding the tent in flames. The occupants had great difficulty in escaping with their lives, all being more or less severely burned, especially the girl, about the body and face. She was attended by Dr Somerville and Nurse Nafra that day, but died on Monday'. The father, mother and two children were brought to Wairoa Hospital for treatment.

FALL FROM A TRAIN. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. TAUMARUNUI, June 2. A man not yet identified met with a shocking accident at Mangapehi about 2 o'clock this morning, falling from the extra express from Wellington. It is surmised that his head came into contact with a manuka stake, and when picked up by a slow train after daybreak he was lying in a pool of water and was in a half-frozen condition. The injured man was removed to the Taumarunui Hospital, where he lies unconscious and in a serious condition. A MOTOR SMASH. NATIVE KILLED AND TWO INJURED. 11AWERA, June 1. Seven natives were (ravelling in a motor car from Opunake to Ohakeho yesterday. When opposite the pa at Oeo the car for some unexplained reason capsized, but landed again on its wheels. A native named Waka was killed and two others, a man and a woman, were injured and sent to hospital.

WELLINGTON MOTOR FATALITY. FURTITER PARTICULARS. WELLINGTON, June 1. Regarding the motor fatality last, night it appears that Caomhcs and Tilley wore crossing Jervois Quay in the neighbourhood of the Fire Brigade station and had just emerged from the rear of one motor lorry when they came straight in front of a second motor lorry travelling at. a speed of about eight miles an hour. The driver applied the brakes, but too laic to avert an accident.

Coombes w:is 42 years of age and was in town on a business visit. Tilley's condition last night became serious, but it is reported this morning to be a little belter.