ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 186, 16 November 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A TREACHEROUS BATHING PLACE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. A number of girls were bathing in the river at Te Aroha on Saturday afternoon, when Dorothy Cox, aged twelve, the daughter of a railway employee, drifted into the current. She called out good-bye several times and sank, and was seen no more. It is presumed she was caught in the undertow, as the Waihou river is swift and treacherous. HEART FAILURE. Hokitika, Tuesday. Miss Nellie Ryan, a respected resident of Hokitika for many years, .died suddenly this morning of heart failure. A MYSTERIOUS FATALITY. Dunedin, Last Night. John Kelly, a married man with a family of five, was lost from the Earnsclougli Company's No. 3 dredge, near Alexandra South, and the body was found tliis morning. The only other dredge hand on the dredge last night was Wm. Lainchbury, and he was found this morning huddled lip on the dredge's boat, with every finger severed from his right hand. He was completely dazed, and was unable to give any particulars of the accident. The dredge is worked by electricity, which is conveyed over the cable from the shore to the dredge, and it is presumed that something went wrong with the cables, and the two men left the dredge in the boat to rectify the power, but forgot to cut off the power, or failed to use the rubber gloves provided for the purpose.