ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 286, 4 December 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Whil* the 4.25 p.m. outv>-*rd train was proceeding down the incline between Eliot-street and the Henui bii.t, m on Tuesday an elderly mau who was standing on a carriage platform lost hU balanse, and fell to the ground wi'.h eorsidtiahle fo r co. After lyinp for a few minutes in an apparently dazed cond'tion the m •»> picked hiinself up and returned to h ; s home in the j town, seemingly little the worse for his hurried flight from the train.

PUB PBBSS AB3OMATION. 1 Invercaeoill, December 3. A shocking railway acoident took place last night near Morton Mains, 17 imilaa from here. On, arrival of a special with mails at Edeod»le the driver found entanglrd in the cowcatcher the wheel of a railway tricycle. A. search resulted in Frank Thomas, assistant ganger, being found dead, and Lawrence Fraser, ganger, so terribly mutilated that his life is despaired of. The accident occurred when the men were inspecting the line in view of special and Ministerial trains. The night was cleir, end it is supposed the train came suddenly on the tricycle on the crest of a rise.

Waihi, December 3,

A contractor named Marshall, employed i« the Waibi Company's mine, bad an aim shattered and an eye knocked out by an explosion of gelignite.

Auckland, Dscember 3. On December Ist, us a man name Arthur Bayer was riding home, hi* horse got beyond his control, and in sight of bis father threw him oo to some broken gum ground, causing concussion of the brain and injuring the spine. The young man lingered till Monday night, when he pissed away without h iving been able to speak a word.