ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 67, 12 March 1902, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RAILWAY ENGINE DKIVER KILLSD, A sad fatal accident orcurred om Tuesday morning at the rail* way bridge, nesr Inglowood. Our Ingle wood correspondent report# that as the 7 55 train from Ne*> Plymouth approAchfd the bridge the driver* Thomag Nybane, leaned out of th« cab and was struck on the aide of the head by the bridge timber?. The shook threw him to the ground clear of th* line, and death must have b«ea instantaneous. The fireman pulled up tb« train, and Nyhwje'f body waa poked up by Mr H.Stimsoa and taken on • trolly to leg Wood, where an inqueit | will be held thie afternoon. | At the meating of delegate* of thtf | visiting bands last night at thf Council Chamber?, toe Mayor (Mr ; Dookrill) attended and re'- rred to the ' c<Ba of Mrs Nybane, who has been lefc a widow with s«x yoi-ng childrea ' by the terrible accident obronicled above. He a j bfd tbe delegates if <h->y could see th»ir wiyto i acorn mend their bands to give a hei.efr «>ocert in the Recreation Grounds on Friday afternoon next, and i he delegates unam- , taously agreed, without diecusuon, to , ask their bands to acquiesce in th* , suggestion. Such graceful action 0* t 'he pirfc of the visitors is mo»t worthy , of mentor, and as there is iittl* doubt . the various bmdrtinan will ordially . support thfcir delegates' recommenI dations, jt only remains for th* publis . ti do its share towards ussieting in rucb , a deserving case. PICK TUKBB A3 tOOIATI* "IT. I Dunbdw, March 10. , A seven-year-old boy named John George Hewitt, son of the keeper of as oyster saloon in Gforge-strcet, acoidently shot himself tbis evening, and died a few minutes after reaching the hospital. Gaethootb, Maroh 11, Two mpn tamed Evan Williams and i John Simons were k<ll>d in the Oobdeo [ quarry this afternoon by a large slip of Btone and clay. Oth r workmen had ft ) narrow escape. • Auckland, March 11. > Eva Rawlinson, the school teacher 1 missing from Arafc.pu, was found to- ' diy near a swamp, where she had made > a bed of tii-roe. Bha complained that I school work was too hard, and that her father could iof keep lnr, so t-he bad ' %oue away >o die.