ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 278, 25 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BUSHMAN INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. A serious accident occurred in the dense bush at Raorikia, 30 miles from Wanganui, yesterday morning. A man James Pettigrew, aged 23, was felling a drive. The last tree spun on its stump and fell, pinning Pettigrew to the ground and crushing his leg to a pulp. His mates extricated him, and nine men carried the sufferer on an improvised stretclier for eight miles through dense bush and over rough and precipitous tracks. Medical attention was secured, and the sufferer was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital at 11.30 p.m., 14% hours after the accident. Tie leg was amputated below the knee tkis morning.

KILLED in a motor smash. _ , Auckland, Last Nigit. To-day Mr. C. Cutton, S.M., resumed taking evidence in the inquest concerndeath of a railway ganger named McFrederick. A motor car driven by Joseph Benson, and containing Samuel McFrederick, Frank Porter, Myrtle Brott and Ellen Edenborough, met with an accident. McFrederick was dead when released from under the car. The others were more or lest injured, the ladies getting off most lightly of the P, a "J; Benson, driver of the car, is still in the hospital, and was unable to be present at the inquest. The Coroner said there was nothing to show that anyone was to blame for the occurrence. He found that the cause of death was injuries received in a motor-car accident, the cause being the bursting of a tyre, which, caused the car to overturn.