ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 10, 12 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MM •» m RADIIJK ant »■-' ■ WativUle, Last jUt i It ittcdj m Momi AH vm nn iita ky tt» mvci «• Fabierstoa tea* ii#t aii UlfthjWright He had W&i ▼•ikiif ■iiitiig «««1 at tat gas works, gaiig home aloig tie railway lwflkV* fcotiwit aappsiea just ratsUa *U£ ville. Defeased was aged alfuflM yaare, aad leave* a wiaew feathtow, fcatl married. 'J* !ft TOAD? IATALRV. f - fkiistoluici, Lasi Hglb la iifuest ei With Amelia mm*-, itie, a single woman residing Oxford, who met with her deatl yjMS' l day aftenooi, aear Opawa, waa he!« - aaj. Heiry George Hunt, a {larder, said that ne wai a passenger »i 3.1S p.m. trail from Lyttelto».«|mt , about Opawa statioi deceased pflttd aim as if she vera passim; througflpte train -When sue stepped on taftqnePlatform of a flrst-elass carriage,:'Jer at blew off. She let go her the handrail to try and catch heajkt, aid the wind turned her round andJHrried her backwards an to the <Set line, en which a train was trareflw. The train did not touch her at Jut Riehajd Knighton, a ganger on the littlotoa line said he found deceased Mag ' oa the other set, el rails to which {be. train was on. She, was quite dead!. Jra . answer to the coroner, he stated flat the train waß travelling between tweatyfive and thirty miles an hour at Jne time,. The coroner recorded a rerjiet that deceased was accidentally kjfied by falling off a train between Lyttenon and Christchurch.

ANOTHER SHOOTING FATALIT*. Dunedin, Last Night A shunter named George Neal, a ironed man, was shunting in the yßu*,, when his foot, it is thought,' was «i»t in the points. : He I .was caught I>iW*' train and dragged some distance, Ootig practically killed outright. '. \