ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 24 September 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

o CRUSHED TO DEATH

(Per Press Association.)

Dunedin, September 23. Frank Fox, employed by the Harbour Board, was killed at Pelichet Bay tiiis afternoon. He was assisting to place a culvert in position in i ditch across the road on reclaimed ground. The culvert, which weighed about a ton, was turned over before being lowered, and deceased and several others went round to the other side to put it in position. He must have got underneatn somewhere, for on the culvert being raised a little he was found in a crushed position bolow. The deceased was a young married man, and resided at Noroii-East Valley.

GISBORNE FATALITIES. Gisborno, September 24. _ The Rev. Hikora Tautau, on hi;, way to Tolago after holding service at Tokomaru yesterday, fell from his horse and was' picked up unconscious. He died last night. Kenneth Matneson, who was fotind drowned on Saturday, was a station hand. He was addicted to drink.

A terrible fatality occurred at the Parramatta railway station, New South Wales, on the evening <~f September 11. A girl named Elsie Ford, aged 19 years, was returnino; fj-em work in the city, a passenger, by ths 6.30 p.m. tram rrom (Sydney to Penrith. As the rain tommenced to move out of Parramatta, the girl attempted to step round from the footboard of one carriage to that of another, on tho platform of which a girl_ friend was standing. She apparently*did net realise that the train had recommenced its journey. She missed her footing, and slipped between the carriage platforms. She managed to grip the stanchions, and held on for a few minutes, but eventually she, was dragged from her grip and 'fel* under the wheels, and half the train passed over her. Wlion the unfortunate girl':, body was recovered it was found that both her legs and both' her arms had been cut' off. She was still alive, and was hurried off to the Parramatta fcrict Hospital, where she died a_few hours later.