ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association)

CHBJSTCHURCH, October 19. When tlhe train for Southbridge was slowing into Lincoln station this, morning, a man named Stephen Payne, who was standing on the platorm, jumped on tho metalled way. He had a horse standing on the opposite side of the line, and thinking the train would frighten the animal, ho endeavoured to get a-cross to hold it. The engine, however, closed on the man, and the cowcatcher struck 'him, picked him up, and dragged him forty yards along the ground between the :nner rail and the edge of the platform. The train was pulled up and Payne rescued, considerably In-used and Shaken, but not seriously injured.

INGLEWOOD, October 19. As a five-horse brake, with nineteen passengers, returning from, Miss Jessie Mselachart'fe'bo^cerf^lNessv ; was coming down a^riasty iiill.'the driv--er. ..fearins (t£h© incapacity of the brake to hold -Dacis the. load, drove along in the water-tableland was unable to leave it at the-end of the cutting. On reacting the 'einßankinent Hie ' grtteid; gayer' wuy_, 'and'tli^ $>rake overturned. Tw6j lady~ paSsaai'gerc?" were shot through, the-, roof and fell clear. The driver had his should dislocated. Two passengers were badly and two slightly hurt, the other, only shaken. Tiie brake was badly smashed, but the 'horses were unhurt. CAMBRIDGE, October 16. A sad fatality occurred at Matanga on Saturday afternoon. The only child of Mr Richard Dodd, a well-known settler, a boy aged fo<iw years, was found drowned in a gravel pit, which recent rain had filled. The father was walking round the farm with a friend, who happened to look into the gravel pit and saw the dead body of the child. -MASTERTON, October 19. A fatal gun accident happened en the property of J. Wing-ate, near Tenui, on Wednesday evening. A labourer, named Robert Jones, thirty-five yeairs of age, was leading a gun with cartridges a size too large, and had tried to force the breach close with the muzzle pointing towards fhiimsieilf, with the result that the gun went off, putting both chaa-jges into his body. He died immediately. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased was a single man*, a native of Yorkshire, and had no relatives in the colony.

v WELLINGTON, October 19. Rendel Hogben, aged 12 years, son of the Inspector-General of Schools, died yesterday whilst under chloroform for an operation for the removal of tonsils. The medical evidence showed that syncope of the heart was the cause of death, and a verdict was returned accordingly.