ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

; . KILLED ;IN A TUNNEu. (by TELECiiArii—riinss association.) Talhajie, February 26. ; An elderly man named H. Johns was killed in the Taihape tunnel, by a lato train last night, and horribly mangled..; It is supposed lie was. walking through on bis way borne to his section, .when he was met by. the train from the'AVangahui sculling match. Tho'body was discovered 1 by a" gain-' ger this morning. An'inquest /will be belli. : [Constable Jolins, of the Lambton Quay Police Station, is a son of deceased, and has left for Taihape.]'- '

GHRISTCHimCH MOTOR ACCIDENT. Christchurch, February 26; ■ Merrett, who Was injured in a motor-car accident'on Sunday evening, is still .'unconscious',' with iio- appfeciablo -charigo'-iii'.his condition. ■ . . X' ■... ROUGH ON RVTS ' Dannevirke, l'obruary -26; \ At the inquest on the body of- llubina Sullivan, the jury returned a' verdict-that deceased died from a doso of rough on rats; self-'administered, whilo temporarily insane. SYDENHAM. FATALITY,.. ■; 7 . ' 1 . Cliristchurch, February, 26. A man named Robert Rodgers; 50 years of age, died suddenly at "Sydenham yesterday. Death is ' supposed to have been duo to natural -causes. . •■ ' \ WRESTLING. FATALITY. Napier, February 26. Howell, who suffered an injury ■to : his spine whilst wrestling -at : the . Caledonian sports, last week, died in.-the hospital, early' this morning.. S ' ..

An inquest was hclcb by ;Mr.. A. Simpson, deputy-coroner, ,last evening, on the body of an illegitimate child, two months old, which 1 died in a liconsod homo on. Tuesday. A verdict of deaths from ; epidomic .diarrhoea was . returned. • / • A. little boy, two years of, ago, had a.mar-, vellous escape.from death .on-Monday .Y 'The child fell a distance'of about 50 feet ovor a cliff, near To Aro Baths, and escaped, with a shaking and a severe cut on the head, . ~ '.