ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A DRIVER KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, Saturday. George Melton, aged 26 years, a driver, was killed instantaneously by the overturning of his waggon down an embankment at Waihopai. SUDDEN" DEATH AT IXGLEWOOD. Jnglowond. Saturday. A .man, named Andrew Walters, who had been here for a week, was taken ill, and was being taken to the railway to go to Stratford Hospital, when he collapsed on the roa-d. and died almost immediately from heart failure. No inquest will be held. DEATH I<ROiM BURN'S. ' Auckland, Last Night. Certrude May, a single woman, aged 2fi years, died in the Te Kopuru Hospital yesterday morning, from injuries sustained in a five at. Mangawhare on Wednesday night. Miss May was visiting her sister, and had retired for the night, when her brotJier-in-law heard some coinmotion in her room. He rushed in, and found her enveloped in flames. She sustained severe burns on the body, and her condition was so critical that the doctor ordered her removal to hospital, but she never fully recovered consciousness, QUARRY FATALITY. Wanganui, Last Xig'ht. Thomas Arthur Wilson, married, aged 2!) years, was killed at Castleeliff on Saturday afternoon, through about two tons of grave! falling on him while he was working in a pit.