ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 17 February 1915, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TUNXKL WOPKKRS fXJUPTID. i By Telegraph.—Per Press Association Auckland. Yesterday. William Copeiand and William Dennis, two miners, were employed on one end of the Parnell tunnel when a shot was fired'at tlie. other end. only a few feet of papa rock separating tii'e- two parties of" workmen. Tioth men we;'" hurled against the timber supports and covered by tlie papa. reek. Thev were removed to the. hospital s-vcrely' bruised, but luckily no bones were broken. Joseph Syinonds, a, married man, also employed on the tunnel works. Mas knoelo'd down by a pnssinir train, and li'ad'liis liip fractured. XAf'f'Rß DROWXINf; CAST?. Napier.- Yesterday. At the inquest on Taranjpi; Mold, who "was drowned in the port while hathimr,' the coroner returned a va'dict of a,-,-cidentallv drowned. Alter eivin." the verdict the coroner warmly-commended a lad named. Itonald Stevens, who n.ltllouerli only II! years old. liravolv risked Ms life to save a grown nnin. Tlio Coroner commendeil tie. incident to the notice of the llumane Society. KILLED OX Till.', KAILWAY. Wellington. Last Xi;r!rt. David Scott, a ..re, | 72. formei-lv irspeclor of lirvlithouses, was killed near Otaki throiiKli fa-limr off a platform of the Main Trunk er.-prcss train.