ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 156, 6 March 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., March 5. A _ man dropped dead on the Palmerston station at mid-day. The name on his portmanteau is C. J. Ward. Evidently he was a passenger by a train going north.

SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN, March 5. Fred Swanwick, a wlell-known resident of Roxburgh, and an employee in the Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluicing Company’s claim, died suddenly this morning. He had only been on the shift a short time, and was working at the nozzle when he dropped dead. The cause of death is presumably heart failure. A RAILWAY FATALITY. AUCKLAND, March 5. A man named Patrick Matimore, 50 years of age, was working on the railway near the Parnell tunnel when he was knocked down by the in-coming express from Rctorua, and fatally injured. Ho died almost immediately. A MOTOR ACCIDENT. PASSENGERS INJURED, CAR BURNT. PALMERSTON N., March 6. A motor car containing three people was proceeding down hill, near Palmerston, when a tyre burst and the car capsized. A lady passenger, Mrs Dentworth, of Wellington, sustained a severe leg wound. The occupants of a passing car rendered first aid and carried the passengers to Linton Station, where they left by train for Wellington. The car took fire and was left on the road.