ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHUNTER'S NARROW ESCAPE.

Bv Telegraph Prom* Association. ''■ ' Christchurch, Last Night. W A serious accident was narrowly M averted at Lvttelton this morning W through the presence of mind ol a rail- M way shunter named Dolwon. He vvaa M engaged showing a new man his duties, J and jumped off the cow-catcher of a ■ shunting engine to change some points, J passing in front of the engine. He at- M tempted to step on to the i-ow-tiitelier | again while the engine was in motion, j but his foot slipped, and his left leg | was dragged under the cow-catcher. He 1 managed to eateh hold of the hand-rial £ and supported himself. He was carried J some distance before he could drag his 3 leg clear und the engine could lie surpped. A Xo hones were broken, but the miisees i of his thighs were squeezed and badly 1 i bruised. 1

DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. | Dunedin, Last Night. J A child named -less'ie llrooks died at a Mosgicl to-day when about to undergo ;| an operation' for inflamation of the | larynx. Dr. Allan was administering J chloroform when the child suddenly ex- ''§ pircd. I A "D.T." PATIENT'S MIS- ,1 ADVENTURE. 1 Wellington, Last Night. 4 A female patient at the hospital '. named Louie Eastbury, who was admit- ' ted on Tuesday, was missed from her '| lied on Wednesday night and subsequent- | ly found in a coal hole in a state of j collapse. At the inquest the Coroner »| found that death was due to delirium ,« tremens. , UNKNOWN MAN DROWNED. 1 Wellington, Last Night. | A man, whose name so far is un- 1 known, fell into the harbor to-night. Ho J was taken out of the water alive and J sent to the hospital, where he died *j shortly after. j