ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 27 January 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. ] Per Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. Sidney Reid, who was blasting a rock in the falls in Pipi Creek, Tairim. had a remarkable escape from instant death yesterday. Jle was tamping 21 plugs of eheddite into a six-feet hole, when tho charge exploded. Reid's mate says he saw the iui fortunate man hurled high in the air above the falls, lluslimen carried Heid to Tairua, when Jiis many wounds were attended to lie io sull'ering also severely from shock.

SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITYGore, Last Might. A distressing fatality occurred on Saturday evening as the V.'M express train was approaching the Gore railway station. 11 appears mat a young nun named Geo. Wilson Lindley, accompanied by a young lady named Annie btewart, ilaugnter of Mr Davil Stewart, u farmer at Croydon siding, were driving along Nursery street, and as the train approached, the crossing keeper called out to them to atop. Lindley, who was driving, pulled up for a moment between the Hour mill and the main line, and then suddenly drove on, with the result that the train struck the fore part of the buggy, sending the liorSe to one side of. the line, and the buggy and Miss Stewart were carried on about 30 yards. Spectators on the platform were horrified to sec the man's body on the footplate of the engine, lying against the smoke box. When the train drew into the station, Lindley was quite dead. It is stated the electric light lamps on either crossing were not lighted, and neither the engine-driver nor the tireman had seen the buggy as they swept round the curve over the crossing. Misß Stewart lingered until six o'clock this morning. Each of the deceased was i.6 years of age.

DKAGUED AND KILLED. Wellington, Last Night. On Saturday afternoon Bernard Keating, 28 yearß of age, a single man, was killed at Kelburne. Keating was drivfag a grocer's cart for Wardell Bros. The horse bolted, and Keating fell between the- vehicle and the shafts, and became entangled hi the reins. He was dragged about twenty yards in front of the. wheels till the trap capsized. Severe- Internal injuries were hillietcd, from which Keating died in the hospital last evening.

KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Wellington, Last Night. Aji accident occurred to-day at the oomp. of instruction of the Wellington Bagiaeer Volunteers at Mahanga Bay, by which Thomas Hall; a married man, agsd sixty years, who was cooking for the camp, was killed. Hall was engaged drawing water, and the members of the company were receiving blasting in-, structions some 120 yards away. A' charge of gunpowder was exploded on a piece of railway iron, a portion of which was thrown into the air, and, in falling, struck Hall "on the head, inflicting injuries from which he soon died