ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MAN DROWNED. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Uangunui, Monday. A drowning accident is reported to have occurreu four miles abou: Pipiriki last week, a man named Granliehi, employed oil the steamer trailing above x'ipiriki, having lallen overboard. The body has not been found. Deceased came from Onehunga. FELL FROT.I .1 HORSE. Te Ivuiti, Monday. Harold Welch, a hotel porter, 22 years of age, wlien riding a horse yesterday turned to shut a paddock gate. David King, his companion, rode on, and wiieu returning found Welch lying at the gate suffering from concussion of the brain. He is still unconscious, and was taken by the express train to the Waikato Hospital this morning. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. Auckland, Monday. Hilton Sergeant, three years old, whose parents reside at I'onsonby, died to-day as the result of scalds received on Saturday. He fell into a tub of hot water while "his father was preparing a bath for the child. GIRL FATALLi THROWN. Invercargill, Monday. Grace Maud Shirley, aged 10, fell from a horse at Niagara on Friday afternoon, sustaining a broken leg, and died in Southland Hospital on Sunday. TWO MEN DROWNED. Auckland, Monday. A' "lad named Tvlaxwell, a carpenter, fell off the oil launch Rawene at Hokianga last evening. A young man named John Cochrane, a single man, jumped in and edeavoured to effect a rescue, but failed, both being drowned.

FOUND DEAD. Tiraaru, Last Night. John Albert, an elderly man, a travelling saddler, was found dead on the road near Pleasant Point. The police report that there were no marks of violence. KILLED IN A MINE. Waihi, Last Night. A married man named Andrew Anderson, shift boss in the Grand Junction mine, was killed this morning by a fall of quartz in one of the stopes in the mine. He was alone at the time of the accident, but the miners working further along the were apprised that something was wrong by the air being cut off. On investigation they came across the fall of quartz, and, on searching, found the body of deceased. Life was then extinct. A NARROW ESCAPE. Christeh'iirch, List Night. An elderly man named Earle had a miraculous escape from being killed on the Papanui road about mid-day to-day. It appears that Earl was employed in laying telegraph cables alongside the road, and just as the tram was approaching at ti rapid speed he suddenly picked up his shovel and walked across the line, apparently not having heard the tram. The motorman pulled up with the greatest possible promptitude, but was unable to stop the tram-«ir in time, the fender crashing into Earle and carrying hint some yards. lie was picked lip underneath the forepart of the car, sonvuwhat badly cut about the face. He was able to get up oil' the ground after a few minutes, and wanted to walk home. Evidently having been daz'd by the shock, he was conveyed to the hospital in a car, and upon examination it was found that no bones were broken.