ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 284, 31 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BULLOCK DRIVER'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Pyess Association.

j . Napier, MarcJrt 29, I The police have received information i that George Burgess, 'bullock driver, ] committed suicide at Wanstead yfesterbush bj ha " si " s ]limself in Wallisgford

THAMES DROWNING FATALITY.

/ Thames, March .29. Both the bodies of the man' and woman Aro, drowned in the Thames River on Saturday through jumping overboard after the benzine had ignited, have'been found. At the inquest a verdict of ac- ' cidentally drowned was returned.

TWO MINERS KILLED. * , I Waihi, March SO. Two men, named William Hyde;, : s,ge(l 34, married, and Thos. Mcßryde,' 26, single, were killed in the Talisman Mine last night by the rope breaking* and precipitating the cage oh which thejmen were travelling to the bottom ofe the shaft, a distance of fiOi) feet. of Hyde was found at the bottom of the shaft in a terribly mangled condition. Mcßryde was found jammed in the ShaftTHREE SUDDEN DEATHS. Wellington. Last Night. Christina Duncan, aged 54, married, died suddenly on Saturdav afternoon at a house in Hankey street." She was talking with the inmates and without warning fell off her chair dying before medical assistance arrived. Heart trouble' is supposed to be the cause.

_ William Oliver 'O'Reilly, aged about fiO years of age, and supposed to be a native of Dunedin. died suddenly this morning at a house in Lome street. While attempting to lift a bag of potatoes, he collapsed. and when picked" up was dead. O'Reilly was a laborer, single, and is believed to have no relatives alive in New Zealand.

Thomas Collins, aged about 43, was removed to the hospital last night from a house m Holland street, and died this morning. He had been working at the Patent Slip, but feeling unwell,'"knocked' ' oft' work and went home.

KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAIN.

Grevmouth, Last Night. Ah old man named Mum-bin Keenan, was knocked down hv the 5.30 train from Dunollie last night. He was thrown ' clear of the line, and escaped with severe sco.lt> wounds.