ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 118, 5 October 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A RAILWAY DISASTER. 'iy Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Thomas Cook, a laborer employed in the Westinghouse brake section of the Petone Railway Workshops, was killed this afternoon. He was slipping a handbrake on a Main Trunk carriage, which had been placed on the examination road in the yara, when a shunting engine came right on to the rear of the carriage and ran v over him. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was forty-five years old. He held decorations for service in Egypt and South Africa. Twelve months ago he came to New Zealand on account of his wife's health. He leaves a widow and one child, aged seven years, in straitened circumstances. A TRAMWAY FATALITY. . U ' — Invercargill, Last Night. The coroner (Mr. G. Cruickskank) formally recorded his verdict in the recent tramway fatality, resulting in the death of lirederick Smith, that deceased was accidentally killed while attempting to board a moving tram-car. He referred to the contrjicdii'tory nature of the evidence as to the length of time deceased was under the ear, and said that, from records supplied by the tramway officould not find it proved that deceased cials, supported by outside evidence, he was under the car for more than twenty minutes, and probably a minute or two less. However, in any case, the said length of time deceased was under the car militated greatly against his chance of recovery. KILLED BY A HORSE. Blenheim, Friday. A child, aged six years, named Elsie Learning, was killed yesterday by a kick from a horse. There were no witnesses of the accident. It is presumed that she was playing round the horse, which lashed out and broke her neck. FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. Blenheim, Friday. Yesterday afternoon James H. Foster, custodian of the Government buildings, and his daughter, Eva Marion, went for a drive. The horse bolted and the trap collided with another trap coming in the opposite direction. Both vehicles were overturned, and the occupants thrown out. The occupants of the second trap escaped unhurt, but Foster and Miss Foster were badly hurt. Miss Foster sustained a fracture of the skull in two places, and her condition is hopeless. Foster received a severe scalp wound and had his nose injured, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. BICYCLE FATALITY. jy, , If. , J MOT ' * Timaru, Friday. Miss Kate Millar, aged 30, died at noon to-day as the result of a fall last evening from a runaway bicycle.