ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
CHAPTER OP ACCIDENTS. • (ByTeleijraDh.—Press Association,) ' Gisborne, October 19. . Yesterday a young married man. namedWatts, employed at the Pahifltiia , Sta» tion, gashed-his .fopt badly with. an axe. While he was being brought to town for 'medical . assistance ■ the : horse in the gig' bolted. The vehicle capsized, and rolled' into the river, the ocpupants being thrown clear.;':' Alfred R. Winkworth, a roadman employed' by the County Council,' wput into' the river!to, liberate, the, horse, and was browned: Watts was broughtto tbo hospital,at 3 o'clock- in the'morning.'
Albert. Barrow, a ; single ■ man,; residing at. 126 Broiigham Street, and. employed ; by the tramways,, was admitted: to the' hospital yesterday l Buffering from a severely bruised leg, tbo result of a knock from an iron rail. -
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 952, 20 October 1910, Page 7
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