ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 6 May 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCIDENT OX THE RAILWAY. As the 6.40 train from Wanganui was approaching the top of Brunswick hill yesterday morning, reports the Paten, Press, the fireman noticed a man’s hat lying by the rails, and as the train was proceeding very slowly at the time he jumped off to pick it up. He then noticed the body of a man lying across the rails immediately in front of the engine. Ho had, however, no time to got the body out of the way before the engine struck it and carried it along for about five yards until the train was pulled up. It Aims then found that the body was that of an elderly man who was bleeding from an ugly AvounddtLOKcrkna ing from an ugly gash over the right eye. The man was placed in the guard’s van and his wounds dressed as well as possible, after which he was taken back in the train to Aramoho and conveyed to the hospital. The identity of the unfortunate man is at present unknown. It is surmised that he ivas knocked down hy one of the trains eom r eying territorials to the Oringi camp on Sunday, and had laid unconscious across the rails until struck by the train this morning. CONCUSSION” OF THE BRAIN. Master ton, May 5 A young man named George McMillan fell from a, bicycle this evening, an 1 Avas removed to tho hosnital suffering from concussion of the brain.