ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 24 October 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A WOMAN MISSING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Saturday. A widow of 58, resident at Taylor* ville, has been missing since yesterday morning. An umbrella and" overcoat were found on Cobden Bridge last night. LAD SERIOUSLY INJURED. Feilding, Yesterday. Erie Fowler, aged 18, the son of Mr. H. Fowler, of Kimbolton road, met with a fearful accident yesterday.. He left home with a horse in the morning, and returned later with his face frightfully battered. He had evidently been kicked by the horse, though he could remember nothing of the accident. It was marvellous that he was able to reach home. He was taken to the hospital and operated on. It will be a week before he is out of extreme danger. A FATAL MISTAKE. Oisborne, Saturday. Nepia Te Paaka, an aged Maori, drank some rheumatic liniment, and died from the effects. DEAD BODY ON A RAILWAY LINE. Christchureh, Last Night. A railway ganger, whilst proceeding along the Christchurch-Lyttelton line this morning at about 9 o'clock, found the dead body of a man at a spot about; a mile on the town side of the Heathcote station. The body has been identified as that of .Frank Melsom, about 4o years of age, a resident of Woolston. who leaves a wife and four children. Nothing definite has yet been ascertained as to what happened to deceased, but it is surmised that he was a passenger by the 10.50 p.m. train from Lyttelton on Saturday, that he fell off the train, and that he rolled to the foot of the embankment, where the body wa* found.