ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 41, 13 March 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DEAD. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A Tcpukc settler named Barnctt, aged 1)5, wa.s found dead ait the fool of a precipice. ( A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. \ Wellington, Friday. On Wednesday afternoon, two railway ■employees were proceeding along the line between Wouilville and Dannevirkc on a trolley wlicu they were overtaken by a special engine. The men jumped oil' the trolley but the engine knocked it on. top. of' litem. One man named Smart had a leg broken and was removed to the. hospital. The patient apI pcared to be doing all right but late | 1 last evening he became unconscious. » Now lie is l.vinjr in it critical condition and: no hope for his recovery is enlcr- . tained. OLD MAN BURNED TO DEATH. Dunedin, Last Night. Dui'itld 'Sinclair, an old resident of " Naseby. was burnt, to death last nightowinir' to his house catching lire. Appearances show that the old man made an attempt to escape. Another man. who was in the house at the time, managed to escape.

ISUHPOSED BURNING FATALITY

Dunedin, Lust Night. Daniel Watt, sixty yearn of age, wa found dead in his hut at North Dunedin where he lived alone. It is conjecture thai he must have fallen into tile I'm where death overtook him, as his hand were badlv burned. A bank-book, sliov ing a deposit of .-CUBO7, was loan among his possessions.

RAILWAY SHUNTER'S DEATH

Palinertson, N„ Last Night-

\t the impicst on William McGonagh', who died an the result of an accident at Marton Junction, a good deal »t cross-examination took place to elicit, whether deceased was putting the Jig"er on the van at the time of the accident and not in the course of his duties, and whether a breach of the regulation* had taken, place, leading to the accident A verdict of accidental death was returned, with a rider that more rare hhould be. taken in shunting, especially when a train or a. portion of a tram was at the platform.