ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 56, 9 March 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

KILLED ON RAILWAY WORKS. I’ek I’ukbb Association. • Taumarunui, March 8. A man named Henry Mcrrin, manager on a small railway formation contract on the Stratford-Main Trunk lino, was so severely injured by a truck at M.akirakau, 15 miles from taumarunui, on Saturday morning, that he died ten minutes after admission to the Taumarunui hospital at 7 the same evening. Merrill has two brothers in the Kaiapoi district, Canterbury, but no other relatives in New Zealand. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest.

OLD WOMAN’S SAD END.

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Ihe body of Mrs Dixon, missing from the seaside since January 29th. was discovered about ten miles north ol the heads in an improvised shelter, about seven yards from high water, the spot had been passed and repassed by the search parties. At the •nqnest this afternoon a verdict of death Irom exposure was returned.

INJURED ON A STEAMER. Auckland, March 8. Benjamin Johnsyn Benson, who fell down the ladder of a coastal steamer on February 2Jrd, fracturing his ribs and sustaining internal injuries, died at the hospital to-day.