ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 345, 22 March 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH. By Telegraph.—rress Association. Wanganui, March 21. The body of a young woman named •.utton, who has been missing since Tuesday, was found this morning floating in the river. [The deceased, who was a daughter of Mr Sutton, a well-known Hawera settler, had been suffering for some i time from religious melancholia.] I Wanganui, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of Miss Sutton, whose body was found in the river this morning, a verdict or suicide while temporarily insane was returned. FOUND DEAD IN A STABLE. ! Palmerston North, March 21. A man named Nils Peterson, aged 70. was found deaa in a stable attached to his premises at Stoney Creek- this morning. The body waß fully clothed. Death apparently took place yesterday. _ ANOTHER RAILWAY FATALITY. Dunedin, Last Night. John Horan, a middle-aged married man, living with his family at Caversliam, and employed as a ganger on the Mosgiel duplication works, was knocked down by tie engine of the 1,2 p.m. train 4rom Dunedin to-day. It appears he was talking to another ganger (John Elliott) close to the Kensington passenger siding, and they were standing behind some trucks. Eiliott said, "Look out, Jack, she's coming," and Horan, thinking the shunting engine was approaching the trucks, stepped on to the main lino, and was 'cut down by the engine. He was carried some thirty feet, and picked up unconscious with a fractured skull. He died at 4 p.m. without regaining consciousness. SUDDEN DEATHS. Thames. Last Night, Two sudden deaths occurred at the ■Thames to-day. Peter Harvey Curtis, about seventy, was found dead in ft room at his residence at Karaka. The man had apparently been dead for some hours. He was last seen alive on the day previous. Some seizure of we heart or brain was the cause of death. John Mclsaacs, aged fifty-eight, whilst reading a paper in the hotel where he was staying, suddenly collapsed. Assistance was promptly rendered, but the man was dead. He was identified with the mining industry, and was well known on the gold fields. PROBABLE DROWNING FATALITY. Auckland, March 21. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a man named Frank Hill, aged 40, who was last seen aboard the yacht Katie at Mechanic's Bay, Parnell, on Saturday forenoon, point to the probability of a drowning fatality. Hill boarded the yacht at about 10 a.m. on Saturday for the purpose of proceeding to Maraetai, about 10 miles from Auckland, for a cargo of explosives. Mr Hodgs'on, his employer, upon being informed on Saturday afternoon that the craft was still at her anchorage, about 400 yards from Wynyard pier, went out) to the vessel to ascertain from Hill the cause of his delay in starting. The only traces Mr Hodgson could find of his employee, however, were his coat, hat and pipe. No tidings of the mining man have come to hand. Mr Hodgson states that when he last saw Hill on board the yacht he was hauling in the cable chain, and he fears that he must have slipped and fallen overboard. The depth of water at the anchorage is eleven feet.

'i CHILD DROWNED. A chil l, 13 months old, was drowned by falling into a till) or copper of water .it Stratford last niffht. No further particulars <ue available.