ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 108, 18 February 1936, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

DRAY FALLS INTO RIVER. ONE MAN DROWNED AND ONE INJURED. (Per Press Association). MASTER.TON, February 17. When a horse and dray went over a 25-foot bank this afternoon into the Waingawa River, one of the occupants, Mr Timothy Manion, aged about 47, was drowned, and his companion, Mr Angus McCauley, received internal injuries. The river bank, which had been cut away by a flood, gave way under the weight of the dray, which fell into seven feet of water. Mr McCauley managed to crawd about a mile for assistance, but Mr Manion was dead when removed from the river. The horse broke two legs and was destroyed. The victim was a single man and has no known relatives in New Zealand. FARMER FOUND DEAD. STRATFORD', February 17. When his horse displayed unusual interest in something in a gully by the roadside as he was driving to a dairy factory at Scratford this morning Mr Charles N'eilsen looked over the edge and saw a neighbour, Mr John P. Bonner, lying dead under a horse and cart. Mr Bonner, aged 69, with a largo adult family, had set off for the factorj 7 at 8 a.m. He was found at 8.20 a.m. Marks at the roadside indicated that the horse ahd struggled before going over the edge. It is thought possible that Mr Bonner had a seizure, falling back with the reins in his hands, and so deflected the horse, which was known to be docile, over the brink. The drop was 25 feet, but the horse was uninjured.