CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13003, 24 December 1906, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

A fatal accident occurred at the Mount Albert (Auckland) Railway Station late on Saturday nigra. A rnarr.ed man named Brooks was getting off one of the carriage.-, before the tram stopped. He fell. and. ccttiru? under the whci'l.-. three, carnages ran over him. He was terribly rat about, and succumbed almost immediately to nw injuries. , v William Gonllet, employed on tne -Napier breakwater, mot with a fatal accident about 6.30 on Saturday evening. He was engaged in tripping the monkey in conl, *<"' tpon with, pile-driving operations, and by some means overbalanced himsolf and sbuna round a* the monkey descended, causing it to strike him a.; it fell- The deceased's right arm was severed from the bodv, and all the shoulder bones wer* broken, the shoulder and elbow being bterbllv (smashed to a palp. After being f*™*the body fell into tho ware- and sink, being recovered abf.ut iorty-hve mmiitca afterwards by the harbor-master. iJie deceased was thirty-tbrcv year? of age. and 13 a married man with one child. A ro-.n named Campbell lemployed by Mr Newman) w:is kiiled while buMuWling near Oven. Nelson. _ A distressing accident occurred at Makarewa on Friday, resulting in the death of a. lad named Robin Andrew Kidd. This lad, in company with a brother, about ten years of age, was silting on the framework, of a Cambridge roller, driven by another brother, a youth of sixteen years- Going wp a flight incline, the driver fctruck ono«f ; the horses with hi", whip. This caused it to jump, jerking the roller, wish the result that the boy Robin was thrown to the ground and crushed by the roller, killed instantly.