ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

v RUN OVER BY A J TRAMCAR. A CHRISTGHUIICH: AUCTIONEER', , ■: KILLED. .'(BY TELEGBArH.-rPRESS ASSOCIATION.) Giiristchurcll, March 31. Mr.'..Sidney Cadlo,- a well-known, stock auctioneer, in the employ. of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., mot- with, a shocking accident tonight. . Ho . was crossing -tho_ train rails, in Cathedral Square when' he slipped,: and the Opawa steam tram, which was then coming }n ;r struck >h im,'t-he engino passing over him. /When: the .trs(m. '.stopped he\was-'fqiind lying face downwards between,.tho engine- and tiletrailer. •'•'.Tho.- latter:, was 'uncoupled,..and 'it Mas then'.found that ! Mr, Cadle had received •tefriblo iniuriesj \b'oth - legs being completely sovored below , tho .knee.l. He. quite, unconscious 'at the -time/ and .was taken to the hospital. in a critical condition.' Ho died about 11 o'cldck. ""

FALL FROM A TRAIN. v.o' , Hastings, March: 31. . Ail old: age pensioner named Fritz Reilier, aged-75, fell'off a moving train'this morning between liere'and Napier.' He was brought back' by' the next traini, . The riiari has sustained no 'apparent injury,' except' that hp appears, to bo dazed.. " DROWNED. Auckland, March 31. A sad : drowning •,-fatality"; is reported from' Tailevu (says tho " Fiji Times " } of March 21). Mr. Lionel Coward, second son of Mr. ,\V. 'Leveson Coward, \vas ( fixing'up some small repairs on. a cutter, and not .answering' to ,his sister's call sho went to the riverancl found lie. had ; disappeared. . ' His hat was floating' in 'the .water, and some - natives found Tiis body iii the middle of ; the- river. Deceased was 27 years of age, and was a favourite with both' the'.white arid. iiativo' popii-. latipn, 'Being an epileptic,siibject,' it is posed Mr! Coward dropped into the river while suffering'/from ;a' seizure.-; ; KILLED BY A FALLING BRANCH. , '•\ Gisborne, March 31. ; A man named Underline was killed at tho Arowhana station, Whatatutu, by the-limb of a treo falling on him. A six-year-old child named Malcolm Turner, residing .in Dixon {Street, was knocked down; at 12.30 pim. yesterday at, the junction of Mannors and Willis Streets by a . horse attached to an express. He was taken to the Hospital, where it"' was found that his hip was disJocated. ' : He was reported late last night to; bo making satisfactory progress.; : ,