ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 196, 28 November 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A CARPENTER KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. Fredk. Coates, a carpenter, 80 years of age, who fell -14 ft. while employed in the new Town Hall on Wednesday, died m the hospital. TWO CHILD FATALITIES. Dunedin, Last Night. The police have received advice that a lad named Pirie Philp, aged 8 years, son of David Philp, farmer, of Dunback, was accidentally killed while playing in the playground at school with other children on Friday. Chis Johnson, aged 8 years, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the canal at Kaitangata on Saturday. KILDED BY A TRAIN.

Wellington, Last Night. The police are advised that Patrick McGinn, a man recently from Christchurch, where his relatives are understood to reside, was run over by a train between Koputaroa and Shannon on the Manawatu line last night. He was taken to the Otaki Hospital, where both legs were amputated. He died at 4.30 this morning. Deceased had been working at a flaxmill during the past two or three weeks. A BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

Wellington, Last Night. Louis H. Sanderson, of Wellington, fractured his skull as the result of a bicycle accident at Newtown yesterday morning. He was unconscious for some time, but was reported this afternoon by the hospital authorities to have recovered consciousness, and to be getting on well.