ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 March 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. Wcstport, March 21. An (dd age pensioner named Ralph Spraggon was run over by a train ou the Conn's Creek line last night and killed. Deceased, who was deaf, apparently did not hear the train approachiii", and stepped on the line a short distance in trout o! it. lie was a miner, and an old resident of the district. (tore, March 2-1. A young man named Arthur S. Humphries met with n fatal accident at "Ma-tiun-a this morning. The horses in a which was journeying with a party to l-oiliose, halted whe;i crossing the -Mstaui-a susnousioii bridge, and the drag colliding with the kerbing on the footpath, Humphries ,wr.s thrown out, and landed heavily, on the path, sustaining critical injuries from which he died •>» minutes later, lie was ->r> years of age. Core, March 2-L All Old muter named David McDonald, at w-eh-e Mile, near Queenstown, has been missing for some days, and it is leared a misadventure lias befallen him. A search in the vicinity „f his camp has tailed to reveal I races of his wherenbou s, am i( is surmised he has fallen into the lake.