ACCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS

: TERRIBLE RAILWAY FATALITY. AN INSPECTOR RUN OVER-BY'LOADIS / ./-,', TRUCKS. . '' ■ - (nv TKr.EGnArii —mess association".) Ohakune, January 22. Mr. W. A. Floyd, who lias been. employed as inspector on tiie Main Trunk line for the last.ton years, was killed of Ohakune railway station to-day. A train knocked hiiii over, cutting his body in two; —, ' (Bt TEI.EGUAPH—SI'KCIAI, . COBRESFOXDBKT.) Taihape, January 22. Particulars of tho death of Mr. W. Floyd, overseer on tho Main Trunl; line at show., that he was knockcd down by six loaded trucks at 2.20 p.m.'to-day, and was killed instantly. Tho deceased was standing on the lino wiiilc shunting operations wero being carried oil. His body was brought-to Taihape by this evening's train, and an inquest will bo held to-morrow. . ; Tho deceased was well known all over, the district, and was- • engaged on' tho Main Trunk works for years, and was a great His wife and family'hold a section outsido Taihape, and two sons aro on a farm in-tho Kaitieko Block. . ■. Mr. Floyd bad-intended to contest tbo-Tau-marunui seat at the general election. / A BOY DROWNED. (bi tbijeohaph—pkhw association.) ,Hamilton, January 22. Albert .Julian, six years of ago/went fpr a bathe in thu Waikato. Ho [stopped from tho shore into'twelve feet of water, and was drowned. '.Another liny of tho samo age-de-clined to-enter the water. . A sad, feature in connection I 'with the occurrence is that tlie> mother is'iii the hospital with typhoid, and was:..to como out on Friday. A FIREMAN BREAKS HIS LEG. 1 Just prior, to the departure of the . Union Company s turbine' steamer . Maori, .'for Lyttehon. last evening, a ■ fireman, named lieniott O'Neill,: belonging to-the ship, fell and, broke his left leg just above the' ankle. First aid was rendered by Constable Jones.' and ilio; man whs' conveyed to tho hospital in the ambulance.

DROWNING ACCIDENT AT LYELIi BAY

Lyell Bay was thc scone of an unfortunate drowning accident ' yesterday.-.morning. A man went out for a swim in the breakers, and subsequently his body was found floating in tlie water and brought ashore. Medical .assistance was immediately summoned, and in tho'. meantime efforts, which proved fruitless', 'were made, to restore animation. .Dr.''Kemp; who was quickly on the scene, found that, life was extinct.. The body was removed:to the Morgue by Constablo Larkin. A Mr. Powriall, who examined a bicycle which was found nearby, recognised : it as one which he repaired in July Inst for a man named J. Clarke, whose address then was " care of Mr. Shine, Miramar." A receipt (for/repairs to a bicycle), round in deceased's clothes, bore the .name '".Clarke." , : . Late in tho evening the. body was identified /as ' that of John Clarke, a _ windowcleaner in the employ of the Public Works Department. - ■ . DEATH OF A CHILD. ' Aji inquest was held yestofdnv by Mr.' Simpson (Coroner) concerning tho death' of Jeanne Ruth Gallagher;, the ten-month 1 old .daughter-of Mr. Christopher Gallagher,, of Coroijiandel Street,.Newtown, who accident'allv N frfl into a bath of water on Tuesday and was' drowned. The, jury, of which Mr. William Wilson was . foreman, returned a verdict of accidental death. ; I