ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 772, 22 March 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■■ :-. ' » ■';■;■, BAIL WAT GANGER- kiLLED. : (By Teleeraph.—Prese Association.! A Dunedln, March 21. ■', John Horan, a middle-aged married man, living .with his family at Caver-, sham, and employed as ganger on the ■. Mosgiel duplication railway works, was. knocked down by the engine of the ,1.2 p.m. train Dunedin to-day. It appears that he was talking to another ganger (John Elliott) .close to' the Kensington passenger siding, and at the time ; they were ..standing behind some tracks. Elliott said: "Look, out, Jack, she's coming," and Horan, thinking that a. shunting . engine waa . approaching the trucks, stepped on to the main, line, and was cut down by the engine. He was carried some ■>thirty feet,-and pickedi up .unconscious. Hβ died at 4'p.m. without regaining con* sciousness. . .

. TWO SUDDEN DEATHS! ■ " Thames, March 21. . Ttvo' J sudden deaths occurred,,at tha Thames' to-day. Peter'- Harvey'Curtis,' : ' : iabout'7o years'of age, was found dead in a room at his' residence, Karaka. Hff was last seen alive on the day-previous. ' Some seizure of the heart or brain is ' supposed to .have been the cause of death. "', , : ' .■•■■■-;.-•• ■•■ John M'lsaacs, aged 59, was reading' .a paper in the hotel where he was stay- ' ing,.when.he 'suddenly collapsed. Assistance was promptly rendered, but the man was found to bo dead when it ar- . ' rived. ' Deceased was identified with the, mining industry, and was well knowp- ; oh the goldfields. . ; ' •' ■ FROM A HORSE. ; •'- invercargill, March 2L ; Jas.' Miller, a well-known farmer, in the Mossburn district, was thrown from, a horse on Thursday, and died in thai : Riverton • Hospital on Sunday.- . ■ PENSIONER'S DEATH, ' ' New Plymouth, March 2L ' An Imperial pensioner, named Francis ' Eastfield Bilton, aged 79, committed '' suicide by cutting his throat this mom-' ' ing. It is stated, that he had teen ■■;• drinking heavily lately. He.leapes a ? widow ,and a large family. . . ■ ' ;'' FOUND DEAD. v /' ,:•' Palme'rston, March 2L . :

A man named Niles Petersen, aged '■ 70, was-'found dead, in a- stable attached : to his promises at. Stoney Creek this \ morning. The body was fully clothed/ • Death apparently. took place yesterday. : '• INJURED AT FOOTBALL. ' ; An Oriental.footballer, E. N. Player, ,'. a clerk,in the Tramways . Department, broke his collarbone whilst playing in ?i a practice match at Miramar on Satuiw. v day. .;: ■: . . '• , ■ ■ .■