ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

KILLED ON THE RAILWAYS. Pee Press Association. Auckland, January 2G. Fatal injuries were sustained by James Porter, a carpenter in the employ of the New Zealand Government railways, who fell from a signal post yesterday afternoon at Henderson. Another carpenter, named Thos. Anderson, had a narrow escape from a similar fate. The accident occurred through a shuntirtg train striking one of the ropes which held in position the gear used in erecting the signal post, causing it to collapse. Anderson hung to the post, hut Porter fell a distance of thirty feet, fracturing his right thigh and sustaining severe injuries to the spine. The injured man was conveyed by train to Auckland, but death occurred before Mount Eden was reached. FARMEp KILLED BY MOTOR CAR Timaru, January 26. # Ephraim Griffiths, aged 63, a retired farmer of Hilton,, and living at Timaru, was killed by a motor car at Temuka to-day. He was leaving Temuka for the railway station, and in the . station yard, J. Wright, a farmer, came up behind in a car. He sounded the horn, and deceased seemed to hear it as he stepped to the left out of the way. Then he suddenly stepped to the right, in front of the car, which was too near to avoid an accident. Griffiths was struck by the off wheel of the car which passed over him. He was removed to a private hospital, but was dead when he arrived there.