FATAL ACCIDENTS.
A shocking accident occurred at the. waterworks excavations at Nihotupu on June 20, by which two men named Hugh Fulton and William Smyth lost their lives through a fall of earth and rocks. Fulton was the contractor for the section, and came from Kaukapakapa. Smythe, who was 19 years of age, came from Nihotapu. The bodies were subsequently recovered, and an inquest was held, with the result that a verdict of accidental death was returned.
DUNEDIN, .June 28
T. 11. Hodge, master mariner, aged C 7, of Port Chalmers, fell down an embankment about 00 feet high at half-past seven on Thursday evening, and was killed. Deceased was on his way home. The track is very narrow, and he slipped in the dark.
A man named Peter McCalhim, a resident of Oamaru, travelling by the midnight train, fell off the platform and had his leg 3 badly crushed. He was brought to the hospital, where he died to-night.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 156, 3 July 1901, Page 3
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