ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 24 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DROWNED. '"^^M By Telegraph—Press Association. ' >Jljw Blenheim,. Last Night." x|jjß George E. Lewis, a young unmarried:.'S3« man, was drowned in the Awatere rfvef 3j|H near Jordan. The police were informed '£-aW that a man was Keen on the road Jn.afe/ffjjaM state of delirium tremens. A colf*| stable rode out to investigate on Friday 1M and after a search found the. body the river. A verdict of "found drowned" ,*ss was return*!. <M CHILD- KILLED BY ENGINE. . sf, Auckland, Last Night. ■ -'S A sad accident occurred yesterday •'.•• J a little son of Mr. J. Belcher, at the r\ Pukewcka sawmill, near Taumarunui. ' „'•;. The deceased and his brother, aged four" i{ years, were walking on the tramline, ,;? when the locomotive, coming down from "j: the bush with logs, rounded a foend on 1 ;"J a down grade. The children were evi- .j| dently frightened by the and ran '.£,s across the track, right in f v ont ofit. v /?| The driver did all he could ti Hop, lmtV : |j was unable to do so in time. The elder; ■ -j3j boy was struck by the locomotive, but was thrown clear and unhurt," but Mb ,' fl '*! little brother, aged 10 months, was run. ;M over and was dreadfully injured, his kg '■s& and arms being severed bv the wheels.- -/M He was, taken to the local hospital, ''[fijjk where he succumbed. • JS MAN FALLS FROM TRAIN,. '* ■£ ; -'«f ACCIDENT AT HAWERA. • t ' <&| - , ym Shortly after the arrival of the ex-- \2 press train at Hawera yesterday morning a member of the deviation gang \fM working just to the north of the station, -gj reported to the assistant inspector of S,+jj the permanent way that a man was lying jg on. the line at a curve near where the .'f| ffans* was at work, and had appreatly. vpjj fallm from the train. He a* once inform- <'s "(1 Dr. Cnmnbcll. v>ho hannoned to hft on '"tform, of the occurrence, and the jj«| doctor, with the station first aid ap- \aj pliances, proceeded to the spot indicated. ; m There a man, whose occupation is sell- ''is ing papers,on the train, wa<j found in a; >j| semi-conscious "condition, with his left ' thigh broken and a nasty contusion on '$ the head. Dr. Campbell rendered first • '"p. aid, and the injured man was then re- /,£'< moved in the ambulanpe to the hospital. '.„ v The man, who has only lately taken np \$J" his present occupation on this section of 'l\'s the railwav, was unknown in Hawera, .' '4 but from the railway pass found in his ,' "i Docket, his name appears to be Alfred. ?Ji E. Mills. So far as o»n be no one actually saw the man fall from '>? the train, but judging from the locality VC-iJ where the accident occurred, and the ■, ' fact that his bundle of papers was founds ' '$ beside him, it would se*m that while ' 'f crossing between two carriages with his '■ »s arms full of papers he had swung j off his balance as the 'train rounded the curve—Star. •>- .■;< j Mills was in th a employ of Books and '.'l Paners, Ltd., and is a married ,man with , J a family. \U|