ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 85, 21 January 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

INJURED IN A TRAIN.

HUT BLOWN OX TO LINE. (Per Press Association.) GREY-MOUTH, January 20. Miss Muriel Cochrane, of Cobden, and Air Frank Thomas, of Kotuku, were injured yesterday by an accident on an excursion train returning from Arthur’s Pass to Hokitika. The engine Jiad passed the Teremakau bridge near Jackson’s, when it struck a worker’s hut that had been blown on to the line. The hut, in falling, struck the two passengers above named, who had their arms hanging over the carriage windows. Mr .Thomas had his left arm crushed, and the limb was amputated this morning at the Grey hospital. Miss Cochrane sustained l a double fracture of the left arm above the elbCw. Air Thomas’s condition is fair to-day.

Another passenger, Miss F. Brown, is reported to be suffering from a fractured wrist.

MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS.

MAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED

GISBORNE, January 20. While returning to town from the country at noon to-day a light car occupied* by four men skidded in loose gravel on a corner at Matawhero, about four miles from Gisborne, anti overturned three times. Mr Erik Gideon Ogren, a ivntersider, , aged 43, was killed, and the driver of the car, Air George Nelson, was seriously injured. The other two passengers were Mr Frederick Stanley, who suffered injuries to a leg and an aim, and Mr Thomas McConnell, who received cuts on the scalp and face. Air Nelson was removed to Cook Hospital with serious head injuries, but Messrs Stanley and AlcConneH’s injuries were o«Jy slight.

FALL FROM SHIP’S HOLD. WELLINGTON. This Day. At the inquest concerning the death of Air John Harold Tatlow, who fell down the hold of the steamer Turakina on January 16. the Coroner said it seemed clear that death was due tomisadventure. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

LAD INJURED BY EXPLOSION.

AUCKLAND, January 20

A delayed explosion caused burns and cuts' on the face to a lad named. Bain, aged eleven, while he was stopping at Takanini on holiday. When playing with another hoy yesterday, he emptied gunpowder out of a cartridge and placed it in a bottle, threw in a lighted match, and ran away. As there was ho explosion Bain returned, and while he was leaning oyer the bottle an oxnlosion occurred,\ showering glass in every direction. He was attended by Dr. Campbell Jenkins. His eyesight is considered to be in danger.