ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
: : I A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 25. During shunting at Auckland railway j station at 1 o'clock in the morning a goods van collided with two stationary vans through running on the wrong line. A concrete stop block about 40 tons in weight was carried about eight feet and deposited on the station platform. A van mounted the block and crashed through the verandah, causing a big gap and tearing the iron asunder. The stationary vans were partially telescoped, the wheels torn off one of them, and the steering gear wrecked. The accident, it is presumed, was due to a mistake in the signals or setting the points. A FARMER DROWNED. Greymout.li, March 25. Patrick Hownn, married, a retired farmer, w;ns drowned by falling off the Cobden Bridge last night. It appears that a motor car was passing and de* ceased stepped aside and fell over the bridge, which was under reconstruction. The body was found this morning. ! -A CASE OF SUICIDE. I Wanganui, ?J[areh 25. | At an inquest this morning a verdict I of suicide was returned on the body of William Brown, who was found at Man--1 gUaihu yesterday with hie threat cut.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1920, Page 6
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