ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 14, 11 July 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SEAMAN KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Monday. Joseph Snowden, a seaman on the Tarawera, was killed instantaneously as the boat was being berthed at the breakwater this morning. As a rope was limning through the chock, the latter broke, and a heavy piece of iron hurtled through the air and struck Snowden, who was some fifteen feet away, a terrific blow on the right side of the head, killing him instantly. Deceased is believed to belong to Dunedin.

KILLED IN THE BUSH. WhangaTci, Monday. Jim McKay, aged 45,' a married man with one child, was jammed between a log and a standing tree at Finlayson's bush, Mangatahia, on Saturday afternoon. He survived only an hour.

AN ENGINEER KILLED. Auckland, Monday, A. MoKenzie, second engineer of the collier Kotuku, who had a leg torn off by getting foul of an anchor on Friday, died last night.

KILLED BY A MOTOR-CAR. Wellington, Last Night. Frederick Hunt, aged B0 years, for many years a well-known nurseryman at Marton, but recently residing in' Wellington, was knocked down by a motor car on Lanibton Quay this evening, and received such serious injuries that he died subsequently in the hospital. He was a widower, and leaves a grownup family.

SUICIDE OF A TRAVELLER. Christchureh, Last Night. A man named Edwin And-erson, aged about forty, employed as a traveller for Gees' Venetian Blind Works, was admitted to the hospital to-night with a bullet in his brain, and died at 11.30 p.m. He was found earlier in the evening, where he lived in Stanmore road, holding a revolver wiah one cartridge discharged. It is presumed ill-health affected his mind and caused him to take his life.