ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22337, 26 February 1938, Page 18

ACCIDENTS

WOMAN'S DEATH FROM ELECTROCUTION

BATH BECOMES CHARGED

{***»» ASSOCIATION TIL«O*AM.)

HOKITIKA, February 25. Edna Emma Taylor the wife of William Taylor, was electrocuted at her eldencethis afternoon. She was JunnTng water into a metal: batn whwh anDarently became charged with eiectr P icity though an electric washing machine being earthed to a com water pipe. Mrs Taylor apparently Ked her hand into the water and ?ht charge went into the apex of the finger and thumb of the right hand going through the body, and coming out It the left shoulder. When found later she was dead. nh r-\^ Mrs Taylor was a native of Cnristchurch. She was 26 years of age. Her father resides at Leeston. TWO MEN STRUCK BY

ROCK

MISHAP ON BULLER GORGE

RAILWAY

ITHE PRESS Special Service.]

WESTPORT, February 2d. Two men, Samuel Grogan, single, aged 36, and Thomas Gallagher single were admitted to the Buller Hospital with injuries caused by an accident in a tunnel near Tiroroa on the fuller Gorge railway last evening. A big rock dislodged from the face struck Gallagher on the right leg and, carrying on, pinned Grogan by an ankle to the side of the tunnel. When he was freed, which took some time, it was found that Grogan's.leg was broken, and he was immediately taken to hosGallagher returned to his home, but was removed to hospital- to-day with a small bone fractured in his leg. Grogan was a former Buller and Otago Rugby representative forward.

Electrician falls 20 FEET ON TO ROAD

NEW PLYMOUTH MAN SUFFERS FATAL INJURIES

(PHES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, February 25. Injuries which proved fatal Were suffered by Percy Holmes, an electrician, aged 30, a married man with three children, when he fell 20 feet on to a bitumen roadway in Devon street this morning. He was disconnecting temporary lighting, when, it is surmised, he received a shock, as liis hands were scorched. It is not established whether dedth was actually caused by his injuries in the fall or by electric shock.

CHILD CYCLIST KILLED

STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR NEAR PUftEKOHE

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGttAM.)

AUCKLAND, February 25. A girl cyclist was struck by a motorcar and killed on the Great South road near Pukekehe. to-day. She was Norma Elaine Fletcher, aged 9.- only daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Fletcher, of Bombay. The accident happened when she was cycling home after school.

ELECTRIC SHOCK FROM

WIRELESS SET

A severe electric shock was received by Mr James Victor Hunt, aged 40, when he was handling a wireless set at his residence at 19 Cumberland street last evening. Mr Hunt was taken to the ChristchurCh Public Hospital in an unconscious condition, but recovered later, when his condition was reported not to be serious.