ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

j DOUBLE FATALITY. BROTHERS-IN-LAW KILLED. OVERCOME BY CAS IN DEEP WELL. , Per Press association. Timaru, February 2. A double fatality occurred this morning on a farm near Otaio, fifteen » miles soul I] of Timaru. Two Tin.arn . men, brothers-in-law named Vincent . and Johnston, were sinking a well on a farm. A man named Nichol had \ sot down to 160 feet. This morning . 'one of the brothers-in-law wont down f the well, and, he giving no signal, his ,» Iniate wenl to see what was wrong. He - also tailed to signal. A third man, Xoble Johnston, was let down, but be i signalled to those on the surface to I pull ui». and be was brought up imjconscious. Some precautions were taken to clear out the gas, and Johnston weid- down again, but was once more overcome. . A fireman's smoke ; helmet was sent for from Timaru. \ and wearing this Johnston descended, v and both bodies were brought up during the afternoon. Vincent was mar--1 jried, and had two children. Johnson j was single. r b ] CIRL DROWNED AT CASTLECLIFF. Pee Press Association. ' Wanganui, February '_'. '. | A schoolgirl, " -Mario Gilbertson 1 (Jeetvetti aged 12, was drowned at ? Castlecliff beach to-day. The deceased e was bathing wit!) tier mother and was - seen floating face downwards in slial- - low water. She was immediately \ brought a.hore, but life was found to l)o extinct