ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 400, 8 January 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

*':/ :,v. ..7v : v 1 ■ (BT~ TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOOIATIOH.) ' \ ' HURT IN-AN ENGINE SHED. •': (or TKLSGIIA-Pn.—SrECXAI. .C'.UCKtSPONbBNT.) ; Palmorston North, January 7. A painful, accident happened" to 'one of the. ■ 'olddstj' "railway ■ monin tho - service .at the ■ engine- shed this' morning; . W. Gichard/ of • the, maintenance 6taff,' was* engaged 1 erecting : some pumping machinery in the shed, and :was. : 'in : tho act of:wheoling a huge fly wheel ' weighing 'about6owt., : across* the; floor when., . it oanted oven'' Gichaid made. an' effort tp : prevent the wheel' falling, but without succoss, and he received the whole weight .on : his right leg. :It\ caught ..the .unfortunate man below, .'tho 'knee, -and, grazed,;'the leg right'down,-spraining the ankle, badly and in- , dieting a painful-'wound oi} the bono. _ Modi- ; oal, assistance, was procured, and injured ' man' was taken by the express to his home in Wanganui. : Gichard has, been 27 years in ■ , -the service; and was to . havebeen super- : annuated in a fow months. . '•• ] * POVERTY BAY DEATHS: MAORI GIRL DROWNED Clsbarno, January 7. • >A Maori girl! at Wliakara, aged 17, was , drowned to-day whilo bathing in tho Waiau River, forty miles from Wairoa, Thomas Casey, an elderly,man, was found : dead at "Whatatutu last night. It is sup- ; posed he shot himself , ' - , \ v : Police, havebeen dispatched to. inquireregarding a "reported: case of attempted, suicide at Waerengokuri. . ' : BOY SHOT BY HIS BROTHER. Bluff, January 7. 'A fatal acoidont occurred at the Bluff yes- ■. terday afternoon. A boy named, Wm. Wilson, with two younger brothers, was' shooting ■ 'witn a Remington rifloj and when about to :aim,, his brother 'Richard, aged /six,, ran. in : . front and received the, bullet' in the Lead. ' The brother, carried him over'a mile to theirhome, through dense, scrub and bush. A doc- , tor was immediately sent for, :but, tho boy : : expired just as the doctor' arrive^.' Mucn sympathy is 'oxprcssod here for tho boy and • ' his parents'. '. .No inquest is deemed necessary. ; NARROW ESCAPE AT. KELBURNE. Shortly aftor noon yesterday the driver of a butcher's cart narrowly escaped from a seri- : ous accident in Kelburne; While driving along:' Plunket Street, towards' its junction with r . the old . Karori ; Road, : . his' horse ; took ' sudden fright at a' traction' engine - which appeared in' a 'cutting'near-by. "Plunging-, . madly, the horse passed, the traction engine, and 'eame 1 very near toppling over the ; bank by: the; zig-zai* which leads into Norway Street.: Happily .a dip iii the road caused : .the* cart' to: fall, the oth'pr way, and, little : damage'was : done either "to cart or horso. The:-driver was' .thrown -out >and 'very severely shaken. " ; ,' A WAGON IN THE WAIKATO. (BY TELEGIIAriI—FRES3 ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 7. .. . A wagon and a five-horse team, driven' by . Andy 1 Wintlo, got "into deep water, in the'Wai-. •; kato River at its'exit from Lake. Taupo. ' While: the horses were being _'given a drink the wagon and: horses sank.in twenty"feet , of . water. Wintlo and three children, who wore having a ride in the wagon,- had a perilous experience. \ The children clutched Wintie, and drew him underwater. Two : boats put off to the resoue, and succeeded in saving Wintlo and, the children.. The former 1 wnß vory oxhaustod. Tho loss of the team represents about £300 to the owners (Gooason > Bros.). _____ :''' " '