ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

; . ♦ I KILLED BY TRAIN JMAN OVERTAKEN ON BRIDGE i [ CP*ES9 ASSOCIATION TJILIGBAII.) PALMERSTON N., August 6. j Overtaken by an excursion train r bound from Palmerston North to Wellington yesterday morning, John ] Henry Liggins, married, a prominent < settler in the district, was killed in- 1 stantly when walking across the j railway bridge at Tokomaru. Un- , aware of the approaching train, he i was using the bridge as a means of 1 gaining access to a property close to j his own home to attend to stock. < Liggins apparently realised too late j that the train was almost upon him. Footmarks suggest that he climbed on to the girders at the side of the - bridge, but was wearing gumboots, the < vibration causing him to slip against j the train. He was caught and tossed on to the stream fced 15 feet below, ( where he was later found by his son. ( The bridge has an uphill approach at each end, and Liggins's efforts to escape on the side probably accounted for his not being seen by the engine

crew. ATTACKED BY COW BOY INJURED Frank Dick, a boy aged 14 years, of 20C Lower Styx road, Marshland, received injuries to the groin yesterday afternoon when he was attacked by a cow. He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital by a St. John ambulance, and operated upon last evening, when his condition was reported to be satisfactory.

| CARPENTER'S FATAL FALL i 11-grss ASSOUIATIO* TELIOXAU.) AUCKLAND, August 6. James Mungall. 3(i years of age, married, fell down a bin in the Northern Roller Mills' new silo in the city to-day and died of injuries. He was a carpenter employed on construction work. RUGBY PLAYER INJURED i I (r«ISS IfSOC'IiTIOK TELSOIUM.) j HASTINGS, August 6. j O. K. Packer playing in junior | grade Rugby on Saturday, received ! serious injuries to his spine as a result of an accidental kick as he went down on the ball. After attention by Ihe St. John Ambulance officials, Packer was taken to hospital, where he underwent an X-ray examination, but the exact nature or extent of his | injuries is not yet known. I FATAL INJURIES • 'JIEiS AiaOClAtiOK TELICHaK.) I HAMILTON, August C. j The death occurred at the Waikato I Hospital to-day of Frederick David j Caughley, aged 51, who received severe j head injuries as the result of a fall of j earth at a public works camp at Wood ; Lcight. near Glen Massey, on Friday. ' He was thrown heavily against a lorry ; by the fall of earth and suffered a fractured skull. BOY KILLED AND BROTHER

INJURED 1 'l'ltßSiS ASSC'UATJOJi Tti.ICfR.WJ .) NEW PLYMOUTH. August C. i Ray Kenneth Henwood, aged 15, whose parents live at Inglewood, was killed instantly in a tree-felling accident at his parents' farm yesterday, and a brother, Clarence, aged 13, was injured. Kenneth went to gather firewood. He climbed 40 feet up a pine tree and lassoed a stump 30 feet high, standing 12 feet away. The stumn was rotten, and fell, striking a cleH in the tree on a fork of which Henwood was clinging. This brushed the branch to the ground and Henwood, clinging to it in its fall, was pinned underneath and killed. Clarence was struck by a falling branch, and war, later taken to hospital. He had complained of stomach pains.