ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 206, 20 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Te Kuiti, Saturday. A waggon owned by Stevens and Co. and driven by Geo. McLaren, arriving last night from Pio Pio loaded with wool, collided with a train at a level crossing in Awakino road.. The waggon vas smashed, and the wool bales" cut about. The man pluckily stuck to his horses, which were unhurt. McLaren had an arm cut and a wrist broken by a kick from a horse.

A FATAL AVALANCHE. Wanganui, Last Night. Frank Baillie, a single man about 28 years of age, was killed at Ahu Ahu, about thirty miles up the river, on Saturday afternoon, He and two mates (Clark and Larkin) were working on a six-foot track, when about ten tons of papa avalanched down from a height of about twelve feet. Baillie was working in the centre, and had no chance of escaping. He fell on his face over a bank, and, with a few groans, all was over. A party carried the body ten miles to Te Tuhi landing, whence it was bi ought into town by motor-launch this afternoon. The body was shockingly injured. This gang seems to be singularly ill-fated. A fourth member (John Brady) was drowned the previous week, and one of the surviving two members only recently came out of the hospital, wliere a badly cut foot had been doctored.

FATALITY AT WAIKANAE.

Wellington, Last Night. An unmarried man named Daniel McCarran, alias Mcllray, was drowned in the surf on the Waikanae beach on Saturday. He swam out with a friend 150 yards beyond the breakers, and the latter returned after counselling MeCarran not to go further. A few minutes later McCarran (200 yards out) was seen to throw up his hands and sink. Some bathers proceeded out, but could not locate the body, which was washed up in the surf fifteen minutes later. Artificial respiration was practised and medical aid procured, but life had to be pronounced extinct.