ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

KILLED ON RAILWAY LINE. [Per PhEß# Aesoot'ation.l ''Groymouth,'April 17. A young man, named Jack Johnson, of Kaiata, about 26 years'of ago, was found on the Greymouth-Hokitika lino near Grey railway station, terribly mutilated. It is surmised that lie was run over by the incoming 7 o'clock train. Word was received at the police station on Monday night (says the Timaru Herald) that a young man was lying witli a broken leg on the Temuka Road. Constables Tizzard and Fulton got a car, went out and rendered first aid. The Ambulance Brigade had also boon advised, and members took a car aud stretcher and brought the patient to the hospital. The injured person was a young man named Hennessy, Employed at the Smithfield Freezing Works, and whose parents live at Washdyke. Ho was somewhat dazed when found. From his story it appeared that he and two others whom ho did not know, were cycling from Temuka to Timaru, when they met a cyclist who" ran into Hennessy, with the result that Hennessy sustained a compound fracture of one leg below the knee, and the skin being broken he bled a good deal. The other three cyclists rode away leaving him lying in the middle of the road. A man presently came along in a gig, and seeing him, shifted him to the side of the road and covered him with a rug, and on reaching a telephone rang up the police station for assistance to bo sent. The accident happened about 10 p.m., and the young man lost a good deal of blood before he av.th fixed up. Tin victim of the accident does not know who the other threo .were who deserted him in so cowardly a manner.