ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 20 May 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

<Por Press Associated > Vi'i'llingioii, 31 ay 20

A tatai accident occurred on the Clasgow Wharf about II o’clock this morning. A middle-aged man named Charles Thorpe, assisting to load the steamer Surrey, had his neck broken through a bale of tow being jerked on him, pinning him against the outside wall ot a shed. Death was instantaneous. 'I horpe is a well-known local identity and stood for election to the City Council last real'.

Blenheim, May 20

Some young follows were shooting at the Canvastown rifle range on Saturday afternoon when one fired his rifle with the cleaning rod in the barrel. The lock was blown out and struck a young man named Sinclair Cowper in the stomach. He 'was removed to the hospital and died this morning.

Wellington, May 19

■Arthur Sidney Awdry, a married man, who was employed as collector on the Dominion newspaper, was found dead in a hath of water at Ins residence last night. Mrs Awdry went out shopping at 7.30, and on returning at nine o’clock found her husband in the bath, dead.

Auckland, May 20,

There was a dense fog in the city and suburbs this morning. Two cars collided on a single line of rails in Dominion Road, one being full of passengers. The cars were badly damaged. One motorman was slightly injured by broken glass, but no passengers were hurt.