ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

IfOTORMAN'S SHOCKING DEATH.

IBy 'Telesrapu.-Prcss Association.! j Tim™,- i rn, A Ji ckland > November 30. l.homas A. Thompson, a s ngle man residing m Ponsonby, employed Is a motor--5 ViV^r^ 4 "?^.™* 8 ' w "« killed at 10.45 last night. His car suddenly caught fire. The fiames were extinguished, but the was disabled. Another car, driven by Frederick Christmas, was being attached to the disabled car, when a. third car driven by Motorman Ernest Dawe came up and bumped into tho second car. Thompson, who was stooping between his own and tho second car fixing the couplings, was crushed between the buffers of the two cars, deatirbcine instantaneous. Tho occurrence was witnessed by fully a hundred people, including many ladies, and caused a great sensation. Thompson Was a fine athletic Young man, 30 years of age. SUDDEN DEATH. '„ „.,, , GorB > November 30. Duncan Gillanders, squatter, aged 81 years, died suddenly at Waikaia last night. He was one of the oldest pastorgiistn m Southland. • RUN OVER BY A WAGON. • Wdodville, November 30. A young married man named Percy Burlace, employed by Mr. Raplcy, carrier, fell off a five-horse wagon to-day. The wheels passed over him, and he was fo seriously injured that the doctor ardcred him to be taken to the Pahiatua Hospital..