ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 158, 9 March 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A man.... named Benjamin Johnson Benson, who fell down the ladder of a coastal steam.gr on February 23 and fractured his. ribs, died at the hospital today. The deceased also sustained internal injuries hi the accident, FATAL BURNING. • AUCKLAND This Day. While threshing was proceeding on Mr W. A. McKay's property at Waiuku, some straw outside the barn caught fire from some unknown cause. The flames carried into the. "barn where two men ware at work. Duncan McKay, aged seventy-two years,, and. another man were on a scaffold storing hay whan' the flames enveloped the hay so quickly that Mac Kay was unable to escape. He was ]jurne;d to death, ti|t; other man escaping with soma 'burns,

RAILWAY GANGER KILLED. ' TAUMARUNUI, March 8. A man named Henry Merrin, a ganger on a small railway formation contract on the Btvatford —Main Trunk line, was so severely injured by a truck at Mahirakau, 15 miles from Taumarunui, on Saturday morninjg, that he disd ten minutes after admission to the Taumarunui hospital at seven o'clock the same evening.

Merrjn has two b.rotfiers fy £b§ Kaja-. poi district, but lio other relatives in New Zealaiid.' A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquegt,