ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 175, 11 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BELT ACCIDENT. By Telegraph— Press Association. Dannevirke, December 10. A youth named Jeffrey Herman, an apprentice at Collett's foundry, was putting dressing on the belt of a machine. His right arm was taken round the pulley, the elbow dislocated and the am broken near the shoulder. The lad had a narrow escape from death. ANOTHER DROWNING CASE. Nelson, Last Night. A young man named Louis Arthur .Suckling, 22 years of age, a farm cadet, was drowned in the Motueka river at Whakarewa last evening while bathing. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. Timaru, Last Night. Another serious accident was added to the list against the railway crossing on the main street connecting East and West Teinuka, to-night. A. Guild, son of Jas. Guild, u well-known farmer of Trevenna, was riding home on a motor cycle, and was crossing the line when the 5.20 mixed train came up. Though the whistle was blown, Guild apparently did not hear it. The cow-catcher caught the machine, and it flew through the a'ir over the cattle stops to the grass inside the fence, with the result that' Guild sustained a fractured shoulder blade, a broken hand, and severe bruises. He was picked up and taken to the hospital in an unconscious condition. Both i man and train were, going at a good ' pace. The innrvel is that Guild was not killed outright.