ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACCIDENTAL DROWNING.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oisborne, Tuesday. At tlie inquest on the man drowned near Tuparoa his identity was established. He was, James Turner, who came to the district a law months ago with a Swede, named Schroder. The two men were returning to their camp crawling along the lengthy floodgate. When on the middle of the gate Turner fell into the flooded stream and Schroder unsuccessfully tried to rescue his mate, with difficulty crawling in an exhausted condition to iliis camp. A verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. \ KILLED OX A STEAMER. Wellington, Tuesday. A middle-aged man named Thomas Caldwell, whose home is at Pctono, was killed, in the forehold of thG steamer Maitai this morning. The vessel was lying at Jervois Quay discharging superphosphates from a northern port, when a sling containing eight bags broke. The -bags fell back into the hold, a distance of ,'io or 40 feet. Some struck Caldwell, killing him instantly. A man named E. Bradley, working alongside Caldwell, escaped with a slight injury tj his shoulder. A RABBITKII FOUND DEAD. Duncdin, Last Might. The body found on the foreshore at the end of Victoria wharf has been definitely identified as that of William Hills, a raubitor, aged between fifty and sixty. fie left Marengo, station two months ago, since which Une no knowledge of his movements had benji obtained. The circumstances, while not favoring any thcorv of _oul play, do not eliminate the possibility of it. Consequently, at the inquest this morning the police asked for an adjournment, "ftor calling medical evidence. The medical evidence showed that there were bruises on the head which might be cither the result of falls or blows. The condition of the stomach v.'ns consistent with chronic ale-holism. The inquest was adjourned sine die.

FOL'XD DEAD.

Wellington, Last Night. As a goods train from Wellington W'li passing Xgahauranga at about six o'clock to-night, the driver noticed \ man lying beside the track. The train was stopped, and the man nicked up. lie was dead, one .side of his head being badly crushed and the features quite unrecognisable. The body wits brought to tile morgue. It i* that of a seafaring man. judging by his dress, and from 30 to 40 years of age. So far it is unidentified, though panel's found on the body are expected to aid in establishing his identity. How the man met lis death is not known.