ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 39, 6 July 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PECULIAR CASE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 3. The actual cause of the accident which resulted in the death of Ernest Austin, engineer, who was found injured in the hold of the Makarini on Wednesday, and who died in the hospital yesterday, has not yet come to light. At the inquest there was no.evidence to show the cause of death or the reason why deceased was in that part of the vessel. Evidence was submitted to show that Austin had received instructions to do some work in the engine-room, and no ione saw him after that time until a waterside worker, on lifting the hatches of the hold, discovered him lying in an insensible condition about 30 feet below.

RAILWAY FATALITY,

Feilding, Saturday

Miss Formby, an elderly woman, who had purchased a ticket for Wellington, was the victim of a train accident here to-day. The Auckland train for Wellington was on the outside rails and the New Plymouth train from Wellington was steaming in between the platform and the other train when the woman walked across the rails to the Auckland train. She was struck by the cowcatcher and knocked off the line. Dr. Valintine, who was on the train, attended her and found that she had sustained serious injuries. She was taken to the Palmerston Hospital. Palmerston N., Saturday. Miss Formby succumbed en route to Palmerston.

A PAINTER'S FAU

Auckland, Saturday

A painter named Frederick Lewis, a married man, was cleaning the walls outside the residence of Mr. A. IU. Mvers when a thin bar across a window, to which he was holding, gave way. He fell to the ground, a distance of 'ls feet, and sustained a fracture ot the base of skull, a fractured leg, ami !'other injuries.

THE I!ILL-TOP SHCID!'

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