ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 4, 23 May 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

COLLISION WITH A MOTOR-CAR. . ''i B*; Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Friday. When crossing the Opihi bridge in a '■.- car last night, G. Sutherland, manager '^ for Bockaert's', met a dray drawn by *', two horses. The car was drawn close \ to the loft side, but the leading horse •» swerved to that sido, ran into the aide ' *J of the car, and tore away the hood. fc Part of the framing entered the horse's , "$ chest, and it dropped dead at once. The "' ft car was a. good deaf damaged, but $ neither of the drivers was hurt. •. "^ TRIMMER'S TRAGIC DEATH. '£ ■ "" -i! Wellington, Friday. . -/ When the Union Company's Tahiti i'l was a few hours out from Rsrotonga \, to San Francisco on April 1, u trimmer, $ named Leslie Macpherson, mot his '^ death under tragic circumstances. Do- c eased was working in the vessel's bun- *■ kers when he was overwhelmed by « i heavy fail of coal, suffering a fractured' -<" skull. The Tahiti was stopped and * the body taken ashore, and the funeral >"! took place at Rarotonga the following day. Deceased was a'shv-lo man aged W 2(i years, and joined the Tahiti at Svd- t? ney More she left for Wellington 'on " March 21. . \y A MAX DROWNED. ' - -,j ' ' ?t Gisboine. Friday. "5 'William Cochrane, a middle-.igod rin- \ '* gle man, was drowned at Matawai. Ho .? fell from his horse over a steep bank "''"3 into a flooded river. - ')jS INSANE WOMAN'S SUICIDE, li Auckland. l.a,t Night- *J At the inquest at the Montnl Hospital S regarding the death of a patient, Elira- ?] beth Schomberg, a verdict was returned *~3 of strangulation while insane, no blame .J"; being attached to the authoritie*. % 1 DEATH OF A TRAINER. -jj Christehureh, Last Night. |§ Mr. C. Kerr, a well-known trotting |§ owner, who was injured in a trap accl- tWR .dent kist Saturday night, died at the,^ll hospital to-night. ;"|S