ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1903, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PER PUSS AMOOUTIOK. Cmbistobum*, February 4. Ano.her distressiiag tramway accident happened last night on the Ohriet-church-Sumner tram, A young man nauud Albert Martin fell off th© car *nd both legs were run oyer above the knees, the left leg being mere severely iajured than the right. Martin was removed te the hospital, where he died | early thia morning. ] . LiTER. ]

At the mqueat en Albert Ernest;) Martin, who waa killed in the tram ac- I jident on Tuesday sight, the jury turned a ve.dict of death from shock,] -10 blame baing attachable to anyone] for the accident. Dunkdw, February 4.

Who* the Moaowai was coining up the harbour a man named 8. Phelpa, Union Steemehip Company's waterman, wee polling off frem Port Ohalmotk wharf to inset Peter Hansen, the latter euddeely fell into the bottom of the boat, Phelps pulle* back to the wharf and Hansen wae taken on shore

and promptly attended to,, but life was extinct. Hansen waa a fitherman about j 55 years cf *go. ABhburtoh, February 4, ; A young married woman named' Mrs Fagan died suddenly last night while on her way to a friend's house. ! Later. & pott mortem on Margaret Fag*n, who died suddenly last night, showed that death was caused by syncope, brought en by congestion of the lungs. At the inquest a verdict was given acrordiegly.