FEARFUL DEATHS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 5

FEARFUL DEATHS.

TWO CYCLISTS KILLED,

YOUTH IMPALED ON A SHAFT.

(By Mail.).

MELBOURNE, March 8. A shocking accident, resulting in th death of Wm. Rowe, aged 18, occurred i Punt-road, Richmond, to-day. Wm. Mi Laren, who resides at 226, Malvern-roa< Prahran, was driving a jinker toward Bridge-road, and Rowe was cycling i the opposite direction, but on the wron driving side of the road. When Rowe was about 15 feet from th horse he appeared to be about to pas the vehicle, still on his wrong side, bu suddenly swerved and ran straigh against the off-side shaft of the jinkei He was crouching over the handles a the time, and the point of the sbai caught him on the lower portion of' th body, passing right through. A messenger was despatched for th nearest doctor, while the unfortunat youth stood clutching at the shaft i agony. Dr. Agnew arrived in a few mm utes, and cutting the shaft with a hand saw close to the body, ordered his re moval to Melbourne Hospital. Row« through whose body portion of the shaf still remained, was perfectly consciou while being driven to the Hospital. H died at about 3 p.m. • -'~" Another fatality occurred in St. Kilda street, Brighton. Three young men oL bicycles, David Benton* Sydney : HWragge, and Alfred Price, were return ing* from Sandringham at a steady pac on the right riding side of the way, whej seeing a horse and buggy coming toward them, they fell into Indian file, to alto the vehicle to pass. The two leading cyclists, on getting b : the buggy, discerned a hansom cab be hind it, which came along with eompara tive noiselessness, having rabber-tyre< wheels. They got past the cab also, bu a couple of seconds afterwards heard th clang of a falling bicycle, and on turn ing round saw Price, the third rider, lyinj spread upon the road. They ran bacl to him, when they noticed that he hai an indentation in his head just over hi right temple, and about two inchee deer from which a little blood was flowing. The cabman, George Jackson, of Mai vern, pulled up, and Dr.- Lilliesj who wa in the cab, after examining Price, foun< that he was unconscious. A constabl took Price to the Alfred Hospital, when tie was pronounced to be dead. The cab man has been arrested on a charge o negligent driving.