ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20, 24 January 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

♦ CHILD RUN OVER BY A LOCOMOTIVE. (SX TMLIBBAPB— fRBSS ASSOCIATION.] 1 AUCKLAND, 23rd January. A sad accident occurred yesterday to a little son of Mr. J. Belcher at the Pukeweka sawmill, near Taumaraunui. Deceased and hw b-othev (aged four years) were walking on the tramline when the locomotive, coming down from the bush with logs, rounded a bend on a down grade. 'The children, who were evidently frightened by the engine, ran across the track right 'in front of it, The driver did all that he could to stop, but was unable to do so in time. The elder boy was struck by the locomotive, but was thrown clear, unhurt, but his little brother, aged 19 months, was run over and was dreadfully injured. He was taken to the local hospital, -where he succumbed. MAN FALLS OFF A TRAIN. HAWERA, 23rd January.* On arrival of the express train from New 'Plymouth to-day, it was reported that an adult newspaper runner had fallen off the train a few chains from the station. Tho man waa found ia a semiconscious condition with his left thigh broken, and a nasty contusion' on his head. He !b unknown here,' but from the railway pass found in his pocket his name appears to be Alfred E. Mills. A clerk in the Post and Telegraph Department named Charles Cates, who lives at 145, Brougham-street, fell off his bicyole yesterday afternoon, and sustained concussion or the brain. He managed to reach, his home, but thore, fell down unconscious. He was removed to the hospital, where he is reported to be in much the same condition. Whle working on the steamer Koonya yesterday afternoon, Frederick Saunders, a wharf labourer, residing at 26, Martin-street, was struck by a heavy iron girder, which fell on his foot. After being attended to by v Dr. Henry, Saundert wax takeg to his home. A wharf labourer named Thomas Fleming, a single man, residing *at Alpha-street, had his foot crushed while working yesterday afternoon, and was taken to the' hospital. James Chapman, a married man, fiftythree yeaTs of age, residing at 93, Arostreet, sustained' concussion of the brain yesterday through falling on. the tram line. He was taken to the hospital, where it is reported he is showing no signs of improvement.