ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 240, 10 April 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES

A SHUNTING FATALITY. Ij T«l«gr«fk—Frew ■Am—aAb*. Invoreargill, Yesterday. Thomas Dougherty, aged 50, a laborer, whh, with a companion, walking across thu railway yard at Wyndham on Monday evening, when Dougherty was struck by n shunting engine and killed. WASHED OVERBOARD. Invoreargill, Yesterday. Whilo proceeding in a cutter from Bluff to Stewart Island on Monday evening, Emil Anderson, a'single man, was washed overboard. A search was made, but proved fruitless. AN OLD AGE PENSIONER'S DEATH. Wellington, Yesterday. At the inquest on William Maher, aged 67, an old age pensioner, who fell down steps in Courtenay Place on March 30, a verdict was returned that death was due to hypostatic pneumonia.

DROWNED IN A VAT. Hamilton, Monday. Ernest Richard Dennison, a railway porter, aged 27, was drowned while swimming in the lake yesterday. Dennison dived from a punt, splashed, and then sank. Tlie body was recovered an hour and a half later. Deceased leaves a wife and young child, THE TRAM-CAR FATALITY. Dunedin, Monday. Wm. Nesbit, 'aged 46, a married man, residing at Anderson Road, Kaikorai, was returning home by the 9.30 car from the Octagon and travelled to High street, where the elcetrio car to Maori Hill intersects. He walked on the left hand side of the track ns far as the spot where the fatality happened. He evidently stood on the edge of the kerbing and lurched forward as the car approached. He struck the front portion, and, missing the life guard, fell under the car, the wheels passing, over both legs. The lower portion of the body was dreadfully injured, and death was instantaneous. The motorman says that no one saw deceased till he was in front of the car. and he was unable to pull up. 'Dunedin, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of William Nesbit, who was killed last night as the. result of being run over by a tram, the evidence showed that the injuries were very severe, including several fractures and a had wound on the side of the abdomen. Death must have been instani taneous. The coroner returned a verl diet that death was due to deceased having been run over by a tram while | under the influence of liquor, no blame I being attachable to anyone.