ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 16

ACCIDENTS

fall between train and platform WOMAN SUFFERS FATAL INJURIES Cphkss association telegram.) AUCKLAND. February 4. Terrible injuries, which soon proved fatal were suffered by a widow, Mrs Emily Dutch, aged 56, of Esplanade road. Mount Eden, when she slipped and fell under the wheels of the carriages attached to the Rotorua express as it was leaving a platform at the Auckland Railway Station about 10.15 o’clock this morning. Mrs Dutch was taken to the Auckland Hospital in an ambulance, but died shortly after admission. Four persons, including Constable Hodgson, saw the tragedy, but were helpless to prevent it. Mrs Dutch was seen speaking to someone on the train and holding the hand-rail at the end of the carriage. As the train started, she was swung round and lost her balance. As her feet slipped on the edge of the wet platform, she feu between two carriages under the tram, which could not be stopped, and the wheels of the six which passed over her caused terribl© injuries to her legs, arms, and head. By communicating with the guard on the express to establish the identity of the victim of the accident, the railway authorities learned from Papakura that Mrs Dutch had been saying farewell to a boy on the train. He was a son of a friend of Mrs Dutch, and had been staying with her for two days before leaving to enter a secondary school at Hamilton. While saying good-bye to the boy, Mrs Dutch was grasping a hand-rail, and as the train moved off she lost Th" identity of Mrs Dutch was not definitely established until some hours later, when a friend saw the body at the hospital. man fatally injured BICYCLE AND MOTOR-CAR COLLIDE Fatal injuries were suffered by Mr A. G. Mannering, aged 59, a married man, who had been living at the Salvation Army Home, Addington, in a collision between his bicycle and a motor-car at the corner of Madras and Cashel streets about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. . Mannering, who was suffering from severe head injuries, was to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where his condition was reported to be serious. He died several hours Mr Mannering was born in South Africa. He leaves a widow, Mrs Mary Ann Mannering, of 118 Chester street.

GUNSHOT WOUND PROVES FATAL

• OAMARU, February 4. George Fiddes, victim of the shooting accident on Wednesday, died m hospital from a gunshot wound in the abdomen.