ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9, 8 May 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

(P«r Press Association.) Auckland, May 7. The trucks on a busa tramway at Manumui collided with a tree on the line and were piled up. A man named Kirkton was frightfully injured, -sustaining a fractured thigh, a crush xl hand and cuts on the head. He was removed to the Taumarunui hospital, -Gisborne, May 7. Allen Reid was bushfelling at Wairaate on a steep hillside about ten o’clock this morning, when a tawa tree on which he and his mate wore engaged kicked as Reid was putting in a back scarf,'' and fell, pining him to the ground. His mate extracted him with difficulty, and then went to the nearest homestead for assistance. One of the rescuers rendered first aid, and at 10.30 a.m. they set off to carry the injured mail to a waiting buggy, threequarters of a mile away. The country was -so'steep that the journey was not completed till 3.45 p.m., after which Reid was driven to the Gisborne hospital. He is suffering from shock' and a broken leg. Waipawa, May 7, A Maori man and woman were killed this afternoon by a motor car capsizing. Dunedin, May 7. Simon Weatherall, who was seriously injured in Craig’s coal mine, at Coal Creek, beyond Roxburgh, -on Friday, died in the hospital to-night. Death was duo to dislocation of the spine.