ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MINER KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Friday. Thomas Old, aged 40, was killed by a fall of coal at the BlaektaJJ Mine yesterday. His mate had a narrow escape, but was saved owing to a prop falling immediately over where he was entombed. WATERSIDE WORKER KILLED. Christchurch, Last Night. Wm. Brewer, ajpd 35, a lumper on the wharf, was killed while working con* on the steamer Ngatoro at Lyttelton this morning. A big lump of coal was knocked out of the" basket and struck Brewer on the head, fracturing his skull. BOY'S FATAL FALL Masterton, Last Night. A boy named Sydney Bertram Johansen, twelve years of age, fell over a cliff 100 ft. high at Mt. Bruce, near Masterton, this morning. His body struck a cliff at the bottom and rolled into the Ruamahanga river, where it was subsequently recovered. The base of the skull was fractured, and other terrible injuries were sustained. KILLED BY A TRAIN. Gisborne Last Night. A shocking accident occurred this evening at Te Karaka mil way station, by means of which a little girl. Norma Phi!lips, age<l 3'/ 2 years, was killed. The little girl, with her mother, boarded the train at Tc Karaka, intending to go further out in the country towards the line terminus. Just prior to the train moving off, Mrs. Phillips rusneu out of the carriage and on to me platform to recover a parcel which she had forgotten. The little daughter followed her mother, and had just reached the outer platform of the carriage when the train commenced to move. The Unfortunate cln.j was thrown out on to the permanent way on the outside of the train, and the wheels passed over her neck, almost severing the head from the body. The accident was not seen by anybody, as the train was between the spectators and the victim, but the child's mother was frantic, with grief. The child's father recently drew a Government section at Otoko, and the family were about to make it their home.