ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 26 September 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association) "Westport, September 25. Search of the river beaches, and dragging over a distance of nine miles oetween the scene of the accident and Vest port, failed to reveal any signs of tiie remains .of Corby and Lowo. In addition to other fragments, a portion >f a human skull, Corby’s tobacco box, ind pieces of braces were found on the ground below the course of track through the bush made by the remains joing hulled five hundred feet from the blast towards the river. How the premature explosion nctuilly occurred is a mystery. There are several theories, but experienced men say there can be no certainty. A workman named Henderson, who was seven or eight feet above the blast on a side line, was uninjured. It is thought Loire was blown to fragments, but that the greater portion of Corby’s body reached tiie river. J 'Wellington, September 25. A terrible accident occurred to-night when the 8.5 p.m. train from Lower Hutt was crossing Thorndon Esplanade, within a short distance of the station. The driver felt a jar, the train was pulled up, and an inspection made, when the body of a woman was found on the line mutilated absolutely beyond recognition. The remains are indeed undescribable. The whole length of the train must have gone over her. There is so far no clue as to her identity, and very little left, even of her clothing to assist in identification. Auckland, September 26. Michael Greene, a single man, aged 61 years, was found drowned in a creek hear Kohukohu. It is supposed he fell into the water and died from heart failure. Wairoa, September 26. A man named Joseph Youngman, aged 50, a cook, was found drowned in the Wairoa River yesterday afternoon. He had been missing since Saturday. He is supposed to have a son in the telegraph office at Auckland.