ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 49, 7 June 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATALITY IN RAILWAY YARDS.

By Telegraph—Press Association,

Auckland, June G.

Alfred Spalding, a single man, aged twenty-six, employed as a Titter, wis kilied' at the -Auckland railway engine workshops on Saturday, his head being crushed by the crank of a hydraulic pump.

DROWNED WHILST CROSSING A

RIVER.

Wellington, Yesterday

Harold Kitchen, a young man, was drowned in the Mutt river last evening while recrossing it on returning from a shooting expedition with a companion, who crossed in .safety.

STATION HAND KILLED.

Gis-borne, Last Night,

A man named Robert Filcock, a sta-j tion employee at Mr. H. D. Buchanan's Mangatu property, was killed on Sunday through being kicked by a saddle horse he was leading. He had several ribs broken, and his liver was ruptured. He died a few hours after the accident. Deceased was a single man, aged about forty-five, and is believed to have a brother residing at Nelson. At the inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was returned.

ANOTHER RAILWAY FATALITY,

Dunedin, Last Night,

David McLennan, a single man, twentyfour years of age, who resided with his mother at Wedderburn, was 'killed on the Otago Central Railway to-day. He left Dunedin by the 11.40 a.m. train, and it appears that after leaving Wing'.liti ho sat down on the platform with his legs hanging 'between the two carriages. Shortly -afterwards it was reported that a man had fallen oft', and on a search being made, deceased wan found on the line. He was unconscious, and had a deep wound on the back of his head, while his left arm was almost severed above the elbow. The train brought the body to Wingaiti, but McLennan died before medical assistance could be secured.