ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 312, 11 February 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACUDEST TO A lIOC.SE.UAX

liy ('able.- i'.os Association.—Copyright Pahiatuu, Thursday. While riding in the prim-ipal leaping competition at the Pahiatua show yesterday. Mr. Stanley VVhyLc. rid: r of J-'idy Tina, was thrown on hi* head, .sustaining concussion, of the brain. Air. VVbytc v,as removed to toun lor medical attention, lie is now making =atufactory progress i:ix (ivfi: i:v a ti;a.\i. Chrisichnrch. Last N'ight. Ati i.'ld'vi-i'y' man named Henry .Smith, la\e licensee ol' I he Hotel, -,>-m run over f,v ;• lr.iin in C.ith.dra! "iiiarr about \->.\\» p.m. to-day. s'lv laining icnn:i. injuries. It appeals t.hat_Sm"lh attempted to iioard a car hound for the Addington trots just as it was starring, aim slipped ami tell under the car, one wheel passing owr .'lis left leg. A bystander grabbed him, and pulled him out before the s-cond wheel ran over him. He was convey, d to the hospital, where the leg wag amputated.

YOUXCi WOMAN" DI'.OWXKD. Wanganui, Last Xight. A young woman named Lilly X'ieholl-, aged 23 years, was drowned to-night at Upokongaro. A party of four went tip the river in a row-ooat, when it capsized at the ferry and deceased was drowned. The hody has not yet been recovered. A BOY DROWXED. Ois'borno, Last Xight. A boy named Gibbons was drowned hi the "YYaimata river this afternoon. A SUDDEX DEATH. Christchurch, Thursday. Sarah Ann Smart, aged (55 years, died suddenly at Yaldhurst yesterday, '.he .cause of death being rupture of the aorta.