Accidents and Fatalities.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6702, 20 October 1905, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

SENSATIONAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

DOYLESTON, Oct 19

, When (h8 the train for Southbridge was slowing into Lincoln station yesterday, a man named Stephen Payne, who. wa9 standing on the platform, jumped onto the metalled way. He had a horse standing on the opposite side, and thinking that the train would frighten the animal, he endeavoured to get across to hold it. The engine; however, closed on the man, and the cowcatcher struck him, picked him up and dragged him forts yards along the ground between the inner rail and the edge of the platform. The train waa pulled up, and Payne was rescued. He was considerably bruised and shaken, but not seriously injured. 1 ,

United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph

Auckland, Oct 20 Harry Armstrong, a young man whose parents live in Tasmania, had an arm broken and his back hurt through being carried twice round by the belting o£ Drumgool's flaxmill at Waiuku. Mabtkbton Oct; 19

A fatal gun aoeident happened on the property of J. Wingate, Dear Tenui, on Wednesday evening. A. labourer named Robert Jones, thirty five years of age, w»a loading a gun with cartridges a size too large and had tried to force the breach close with the muzzle pointing towards himself, with the result that the gun went off, putting both charges into his body. He died immediately. At the inquest a^verdioti of accidental death was returned. Deceased was a single man, a native of York-; shire, and had no relatives in the colony. Wellington, Ocl; 19.

Eendel Hogben, aged twenty years, son of the Inspector General of Schools, died yesterday whilst under chloroform for sn operation for removal of the tonsils. Medical evidence showed that syncope of .-the heart was the cause of death, and a verdict was returned accordingly. Mr Turner, an Alpine climber from England, who is touring New Zealand partly on business is lying in a hospital ia Wellington, suffering from the effects of an adventure on Ngaurahoe. Last Friday morning he set out from the hut half way up the hill, and reached the crater after three hours' ice climbing. A terrible gal© .was blowing, and in this Mr Turner losfc his snow goggles. He lost his way m trying to regain the hut, and spent all Friday night and part of Saturday, on the mountain in snow, practically without; food. Eventually he made his way to Waioru partly blind and delirious. Then he came on by coach and train to Wei* lington, .■•■■■/ Wellington, Oct. 20 Ab the inquest held yesterday afternoon, on the body of Eendel Hogben, aged 12, son of the Inspector General o£ Schools, who died at a private hospital while under chloroform during a surgical operation, the jury returned a verdict that death was. due to accidental causes while under chloroform rightly administered. '