ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8032, 19 January 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wilt PKKSS ASSOCIATION. Wki.mxutox, January 18. Alexander Allen,« railway employee, who was run over by u train at Petone recently, necessitating the amputation of a fool, died at tile hospital. Chhistciu'Hch, January 18. Mrs Louisa Finncrly was run over by a steam tram in Moorhouse Avenue this morning. Both legs were broken and the body was mangled. She was removed to the hospital in a dying condition.

CniiisTciinicii, January 18. The woman, Mrs Louis A. Finnerty, who was run over by a train in Mon- | troal-strcet to-day. died at (he hospital . shortly after arrival. Bi,i:mm:im, January IS. }lr Best, of the Budge Whitworlh cycle agem-y, was conveyed to the Hospital as a result of an accident last night, lie was riding m ( 0 („„•„ ,„, (| motor cycle at about 25 miles an hour when lie ran into a trap, which approached him on the wrong side of the road. The horse was killed immediately, and Mr Best injured seriously, though iu» is progressing favorably. The occupants of the trap escaped injury. Wklmnutox, January IS. A middle-aged man named Bobert Parkinson, employed by the Tourist Department, dropped dead this morning. The deceased had served in Soul h Africa with one of the contingents. Arciu.AXii, January IS. A man named George Waite, while following the tram in Hobson-street on a bicycle, attempted to cross the line, and was knocked down by a car coming from the opposite direction. One of his legs was broken, and he sustained concussion of the brain, He was taken to the hospital, where he is lying in a critical condition,