ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 281, 1 June 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[pbebs association:] AUCKLAND, yesterday. On May 21st it was reported that Mrs .Kenny, of Mainuiui, a boardinghouse keeper, was missing,' i'rom her home, and it was believed that she had committed suicide by jumping in-' to the. Wanganui river. To-day In- V speetor Cullen received a wire from Constable. Maber, of Taumarunui, stating that yesterday be recovered the body of Mrs Kenny from the Wa'nganiii river some distance below the supposed scene of the tragedy. BOKITIKA,. yesterday. AVhen crossing the big Wanganui river, M"r Sarty, draper, was 1 washed out of liis trap and down stream. Fortunately lie caught a projecting rock, whence ho was rescued witlr. .some difficulty by Harold Hende, ferryman, who took considerable personal risk. The horse and trap were carried nearly a mile d6wn stream. aVoODVILLE; to-day. The . body of a. newly-born male- ' child was found inside a bag in the Mangapapa creek, near town, yesterday afternoon. .It had been in the water three or four days. The body has the appearance of having been strangled, .as a pi'ecc of string was' still round the neck. An inquest will be held. , , : .A sad accident, which unfortunately terminated 'fatally; occurred, at th©; Turangarere Sawmill Co. V mill at Turangarere yesterday morning, when the henchman, Walter Burrell, had a leg badly crushed- by a; half log. A doctor was despatched by special train from Taihape, and the patient" was. afterwards placed in a special train, for conveyance to the Wanganui Hospital. The injury and shock, however, proved more than the unfortunate victim of the accident could stand, and he expired while on the journey to the hospital. The deceased was well known an Dannevirke. He was a,- first-class sawmill hand, having had a wide experience at mill work. Ho leaves a wife and one child to niourn their loss. • Information was received in Dannevirke this morning ."tjiat the inquest would bo j held at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and !H;hat the body would be brought on here this evening. ! TAIHAPE, yesterday. A fatal accident at Kooke, , caused by a landslip, buried Alexander Priiigle, laborer, of Hunterville and two others. Priiigle was dead when .dug out. The others are not seriously jnjured. 'Some? forty :mp-n were.engaged in the work of rescue.