ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 260, 13 March 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BATHER DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Joseph Williams, 17 years of age, residing at South Dunedin, was drowned at St. Clair this morning while bathing. His companion states that Williams was standing in deep water almost up ,to his neck, when he threw up his arms and disappeared. The body has not been recovered. RAILWAY PASSENGER KTT.T.Kn, Te Kuiti, Saturday. There was a shocking accident last night at Ohakune. Vera Diller, .a young lady passenger to Auckland by the express, in alighting missed her footing, and, the train giving a jerk, she was thrown under the wheels and literally cut to pieces and instantaneously killed. ■ The two front wheels of the car were thrown off the 1m A CRUEL DEATH. Te Kuiti, Saturday. Further particulars as to the fatal accident to George Davidson show that he was riding home accompanied by a teamster driving a three-horse dray. About two miles from Mokau the team bolted, and Davidson galloped ahead 1 with the object of stopping them. After getting ahead he was in the "act of alighting close by to a telegraph pole when he collided with the dray and was crushed to death between the dray and the pole, and literally smashed to atoms. The telegraph pole was split in twa Davidson was sixty years of age.