SECOND EDITION. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 107, 2 November 1900, Page 6

SECOND EDITION.

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND [BY TELKGUArH.— PUKSS ASSOCIATION,] AUCKLAND, This Day. As a train was coming into Auckland last night, the driver, John Smith, saw the body of a man alongside the line J close to the city. On reaching the sta- j tion, he reported the- fact to Guard Lowe, who went back, and found the body alongside the rail. The man had been run over by a train ; both legs were hanging to the body by shreds of flesh, and there was a severe wound behind the left car. The body was brought in to the station, when Dr. Sharman pronounced life to be extinct. The po!icc identified the body as that of William Alfred Hubble, aged 45, who has lived hero about four months. He was rescued from drowning on Wednesday night by MrReynolds, fourth officer of the Maori- In a note found on the body, hubble says : — " I am a stranger in a strange country, out of work, with no money, my wardrobe taken and refused board. There is no other course open to me except to take my* life. Please acquaint my wife." The wife's address is Clyde-street, Parkside, South Australia. The only things found were a number of pawn-tickets. I It is not known what train struck him, but it was probably the 8.45. A man named Jonathan Robinson, a bootmaker at Ponsonby, was admitted to the hospital yesterday, suffering from burns. Robinson was awakened by the sound of screaming in>his children's room, and rushing into the kitchen he found his wife with her nightdress in flames, which he extinguished by rolling her on the bed, but she was badly burned. Going into the children's room, he found the bed on, fire, but the children out of reach of the flames. He suppressed the flames, but was badly burned about the hands. How the fire started has not transpired. CHRISTCHURCH, This DayWilliam Highland, the driver of the engine bringing the evening train from CuJverden yesterday, at the Weka Pass cutting was looking out for a signal, when his head came in contact with a rock. He was taken to the hospital, and is progressing favourably. Georgo Wall, who came down with horses from Palmerston North a few days ago, was exercising one at Riecarton to-day over hurdles, when the animal fell and rolled over him. Wall was taken to the hospital, but the extent of his injuries has not yet been ascertained. DUNEDIN, This Day. George Mathieson, contractor, and James Still, a labourer, working at a filling-in at Anderson Bay, were yesterday covered by a sudden fall of 'earth. Mathieson's foot was crushed to a pulp, and had to be amputated. Still's shoulder was dislocated, and he is severely bruised about the face and body. No serious developments, ai-e anticipated. Aa the children, of the Petone State School were playing yesterday morning in the school playground', \i little boy named Ramsden, a son of Mr. Ramsden, manager of the Petone Woollen Mill, fell, and ■sustained a fracture of the right arm. He was attended by Dr. Ross.