ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 270, 5 April 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LITTLE GIRL KILLED. By Tetegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Tuesday. The little girl Clayton, who was so j badly injured by being run over by the Castleeliff train last evening, died this morning. BADLY CRUSHED. ] Dunedin, Last Night. An elderly man named James Wright was completely buried by a fall of earth at the Catlins railway works to-day, being badly crushed and bruised. He was brought to the hospital to-night, but is in a low condition. ALCOHOLIC POISONING. Christchurch, Last Night. I -A man named Alexander Cairey, aged 42, resident at 165, Montreal street, died suddenly at about 8 o'elock this morning. At the inquest, the evidence showed that the deceased was a remittance man, and a chronic drunkard. He had been at Pakatoa, but after leading an exemplary existence he was released on probation. A sum of £l5O remittance money had accumulated in the meantime, and this he spent in drink in a comparatively brief period. The house where deceased died was characterised by squalor and filth, things rottiig on account of dirt. The Coroner returned- a verdict' in accordance with the medical evidence that the deceased died from chronic alcoholic poisoning. ',