ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 156, 23 June 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

"—«■»' RAILWAY ACCIDENT, : ; j By Telegraph.—Press Association. ..;' Hamilton, Last Night. V- .'■! John Connelly, a train examiner, Jifui',i: his leg run over during shunting opcm-;,^ tions. The log was amputate dat the'-'-' hospital. A SAD NATALITY. / ; Dunediii, Last Night.. ■-'.--;■ D. V. Hood, the young hum wlki sus-\,> tained injuries to his head- through.;.' coming into contact with machinery xt- : '• laclied to a pump on the steamer Kaitangala at Port Chalmers last Friday, C died in the hospital to-day. ■;; ' J. Deceased was tlie second spii of Opfain Hood, harbornnvsUr ai New I'ly-, mouth, lie was only twenty-one years old. He was born in llobart, Tasmania, and came to New Plymouth about oig.it years ago. Here he attended the Central; ~ School, and thence served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Okey and I'.ollo, fouudrymen, etc. He completed his appron-tico-ihip in March hist. Jie passed iim . .'xamiiialion as third engineer some months ago, mid last Tiu-sday joined, :he shore stall' of the I'uion Stcamsljip'' Company. Deceased was a - promising young fellow, and his dea'.li will be deeply deplored by all who knew him. Caji-.' tain Hood left fo r Duuedin on Saturday; morning, but unfortunately was to see his sou before he died, Deceased's elder brother, Mr. Roy Hood, arrived from Auckland yesterday morning, on,' his way to Duuedin.. the intorment'. will take place in New Plymouth, but . the date has not yet been lixed.

BUSHFELLING FATALIJ.T. Word has been received of the accidental death at Taihape of Harry Johnston, son of Mr, James Johnston, au old resident of Waitara. Johnston was killed while hushfelling. IJe had a big bushfelling contract at Taihape, hut iio details of the accident are available. Harry Johnston was a prominent and popular member of the Clifton Rowing Club, and as a mark of respect the club's flag was flying half-mast yesterday. BUKNED TO DEATH. Writes our Opunake correspondent:— On Friday morning at Fihama a'eeveu-ycar-old daughter of Mr. Knappely got severely burned. She was putting the lid on the stove when her sleeve caught fire. She rushed outside to where hei) mother was, but by the time she reached her she was in a flame. Nearly all h>r clothes were burnt off, and her'hair and eyebrows were also burnt. The mother put out the fire by wrapping the child in her apron, and got her hands badly burned in doing So. ' The little girl lingered until .Saturday night, when death reliaved her of her suffering.