ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 265, 7 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. . A GANGER'S DEATH. .., Hy Telegraph—Press Association* Dunedin, Monday. •Joseph Gilkison, aged i! 8, a ganger employed at tliu irrigation works at Ophir. died from injuries through being urn over by a truck. DIiOWXKD FROM A DIXGIIY. Thames, Monday. Charles Hush, a fisherman, aged ''27. was drowned while lishinj* in Thames Eiver yesterday. He w% engaged in cleaning his nets. wh'elr-Uic dinghy capsized. His mate saw Jinsh swimming to the launch, when swldrsly he sank. , ' - ,' BCRXED TO DEATH. Auckland. Monday.' Annie Davis, aged 70, widow of C. 1!. Davis, formerly headmaster of Mowick school, was burned to deatli ; i; a house in I'pper Queen street yesterday morning at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Allen, occupier of the house, hearing a noise in Uie. room let, to Mrs. Davis, hastened to the room, and was horriiied to find Hames dashing under the door. The room was a mass of flames, and the woman was lying face downwards on the lied, apparently dead, and horribly burned. The brigade confined the'lire to the room in which it originated. She origin of the lire is a mvslerv.

STCDIKS LEAD TO Sl'lCJl;:".,' Invcrciirgill, Monday. Thomas Mnltby. aiied IS. a clerk in the employ of the National Mortgage Company, committed suicide by hanging on Sunday afternoon. Deceased was st'u,'y-l ing for the aecountaucv examination, and his suicide is attributed to overstrain. FATAL DRAY ACCIDENT. Auckland, Monday. Henry .limning, a married man. cnililoyed by the City Council at the rubbish deslructor, was jambed against a wall by the pole, of a dray and diwl in a few minutes. A SHOOTING FATALITY. Musfcrlon, Monday. Sidney Richard Mason, a single nun, aged thirty, who went shootiiiL' yesterday, was iVnml dead al Gladstone thi» inorniiiL'.