ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATHER AND SOX DROWNED. tni TSLKGUirn—IMIH3S ASSOCIATIOJf.I _ Auckland, February 26. . Inspector Cullcn lias received the. following tolosram -from tho constable at PapaIt ura:—" A labourer named Alfred Francis and his son, threo and a half years of age, were drowned tear 'Waympnth yesterday mining, while fishing. Tho son accidentally rail out of the boat, and tho father jumped in to the rescue. Both were drownod hefijre the. ©yea' of Mrs. Francis, who was also an occupant of the hoat. A large mimbor of settlers are dragging for tho bodies." SUDDEN DEATH. . ' ' : Ounudin, February 26. A man named Alexander Govan, about 56 years of age, residing 'at' Burnside, died suddenly to-night. Ho left Dunedin by train, and on arrival at. Burnside complained of feeling unwell ■■ and suddenly , -expired. Ueceased bad-'been under treatment at Huntxlm Hospital for heart- disease, and" only Mt the institution to-day, , .THE WANGANUI RIVER AGAIN. Wanganul, February 26. George Gibbons, aged' 22 .yeais, ' whose parents reside in South Dunqdin, was drowned m the river this. morning. Deceased ivas cpok on tlie river steamer Alanuwai, ,-incT while that steamer was waiting at Parakino for the down boat ho went in for a swim. He evidently w.\i seized with cramp, as he disappeared , suddenly. The body was recovered, hut life was extinct, - ' FOUND DEAD IN A CASE, : ..A ll W?"est is to -bo held a.t .the morgue this morning on th.e body of a newly-born chud which is alleged,to have been found dead m a ease at Karon yesterday. FALL FROM AN EXPRESS: ■! A married ■ man 'name-d Phillip Desusa, re-. swing at Edge Hill, *waa admitted to the Hospital yesterday evening, Buffering: from a slight ooneussion of tho brain, a fractured ankle, and an injury to one of his anus, the reau/t or a.fail from an'express. A FALLING SACK OF COAL. ? an W^°sQ name is ainnoscd to he .Thatcher, or Holgate, was taken to tho pital in.an unconscious condition yesterday evening, suffering, from a bad concussion of the brain, caused by a sack of ooal falling on his head. ' ■ 1 b