Accidents and Fatalities.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7806, 26 April 1905, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

((Per Press Association.) PALM.EKSTON X., April 25. A working man about 45 years of age was run over and killed tonight in the square by the special race train from Feilcting. So for the police lme not dentiiieU the man, 'though he is known to be a resident of Palmerseon North. CmuSTCHIKCLI, April 25. A liveryear-old boy mimtd Edward Gray was riding on a coupling between two road trucks drawn by a traction engine this/ morning, when he fell. A wheel passed ovtv his body, ami the boy dkd fvotn his injuries later in the day. A cyclist named (i. W. llawley ran into a side channel on liiccarton Koad last qvening, being badly thrown, and sustained concussion of the lirain. AUCKLAND, April 25. A fatal accident occurred this. morning on the Woikato railway to a young single man named Albert I Hammond, a passenger by the ex- ' press from Auckland. When the train was aliout half a mil; south' of I'aeraka station deceased was standing 0 n the gangway that connects the carriages wiith the dining car, when a coupling came away and Hammond fell between the 'cars, directly across the rails, with the result that he was ki.led. The body was frightfully mutilated, three cars? and a van passing over it. The remains were taken to Pukekohe, where they await the inkjuest. Hammond was returning, to Mercer,, whore ho had been employed in the Union , collenes. His age was about 27 years. A brother of deceased is i employed at the Auckland railway t rtation. ,

DUNEDIJT, April 25* Richard Bryan, who was found dead in his tent at Roxburgh, during Easter, was subject to fits. At the iwcmest a, verdict wa s returned that death was due to a nt, accelerated foy illness.