ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DROWNED IN THE AVAH’ORJ. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, October 16. Tlie body of a man supposed to be that of Janies Anderson, labourer, aged 68 years, was found in the Wai ■ pori Hirer about a mile above Berwick this morning. Anderson went to Waipori to look for work, and had not been heard of since June 22. A man named Molloy, employed as a traveller for Messrs. Skeates’ motor business at Palmerston, whi o motor cycling, ran into a delivery van. The shaft of the van struck him on the neck, cutting deeply through a large muscle. A bone of one ef bis legs was broken, and his motor cycle was extensively smashed. When .Air. Griggs, hearing the noise of the impact, ran out from his shop, lie found the man lying beneath the ruined cycle. He lifted him out, had him carried into In's place, and soon bad Or. Stowe in attendance. Dr. Stowe attended to the broken leg, and did what was necessary for the big gash in the neck. Molloy was uikoiiscu ns for only a minute or two. His injuries were more serious than was a*- first he. lieved (says the ‘Times’). The rightside of his neck was torn open, and his leg was very badly shattered. He was operated upon at the hospital.