ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 41, 10 August 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MAN MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Timaxu, Yesterday. ' The police received word from a sUtion near Geraldine this morning that Fred Burrows, aged 40, was missing.. He was a native of Dunedin. Search parties are out.

POUND DROWNED. ,j Waihi, Yesterday. Robert Sims, the local librarian, vu found drowned this morning in ashallow ereek, two feet deep. De- . ceased, who was seventy years of age, left a note asking a friend to open the ■ | library. . *j [ A FATAL COLLISION. ! Christchurch, Yesterday. Alfredi Bradley, a plumber ,by trade, died in the hospital to-day as the result ' of injuries received on Monday. He wis ' "J riding a motor cycle when he collided [ with a trap and was thrown heavily. He sustained concussion of the brain. V A BUSHMAN INJURED. \ Wanganui, Last Night. 'J The dangers and privations incidental 1 to bushfelling in the ibacfk blocks were, 1 exemplified to-day. While working in \J* the Ahuahu block, inland from the ■■■! Wanganui river, a young man namedt Frank Williamson was jammed between two trees on a steep siding and brake <• a leg. The. sufferer was placed ,on a , ... • pack-horse at 9 o'clock this morning, and! "1 carried several miles over a rough track. He was then put on a stretcher and carried by hiß mates to the river, when they arrived at 5 p.m. This afternoon a special steamer brought him down to the hospital, which was reached at 11 p.m.