ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

STABBED TO HEART. .. With regard to the sad fatality reported recently from the Cladbrook Soldiers' Settlement, near Middlemarch, by which a young soldier settler named ilames Smith lost his life, the following particulars are now to hand: —Some i : ix soldier-settlers were assisting a comrade to get his crop stacked, and had almost finished. Four of them, including the deceased, were sitting with their backs to the stack chatting, and one man was forking up sheaves from the other side of the stack, almost immediately opposite where the iparty were sitting. In hoisting a sheaf the fork slipped from the forker'n hands, and carrying over the top of the stack penetrated the deceased's back, and entered his heart, killing him almost instantly. Deceased, whose parents reside in the North Otago district, wa6 married only a few weeks ago. I

BOTH HANDS CUT OFF. A serious accident occurred at a sawmill at Paraeroa, near Raetihi, last week. A young man named Tocker had both hands cut off at the. mill. He was attended to bv Dr. firiffen and taken to Taihape hospital. The mill is situated at Mangaturoa, 011 the Pipiriki road, about three miles from Raetihi, THE AUCKLAND FATALITI". Auckland, March 10. Jeremiah Patrick Jones, when cycling, touched a horse driven in a trap by T. IT. Stephens. The bicycle was entangled with ihe harness and the horse fell 011 Tones, who was picked up unconscious and died in hospital from a fractured skull. Tie was a laborer, married, with two children. HOPED BY A BULL. Dannevirke, March Hi. While Inking a hull from a paddock at Norsewood a farmer, named ("!. Joyncr, was badly gored, and was rescued in mi exhausted condition He now lies in (he Dannevivke hospital in ti pre- , 1 carious condition.