ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14163, 13 September 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

John M'Tavish, sixty years of pge, a farmer, was killed oq the Sockbnrn (Canterbury) railway crossing by Saturday's first express from tho south. The road at this point crosscp tho line at afl auntp angle, making it difficult for an approaching tram to bo seen from the road. When jl* {ram was a few yairds from the eroding a gig driven by the deceased suddenly appeared, and tho locomotive crashed right ipto it. MTavish was killed instantly. James E. Rowley (thirty-right), saloon steward on the steamer Flora, was-drowned while bathing at Auckland on Satnidae afternoon.

An inqnost was opened yesterday on the body of Wilhelmina Hendry, aged on* year and ten months, who was run over by a Dunedin and Roslyn Company tram a week ago, and who died from the shook and injuries on Friday night. The little girl's father, William Cuniming Hendry (living in Rattray street), said trjat the child had on a previous occasion into the street, and thereafter he had the precaution of keeping the gate closed. On the day of the accident he noticed that tho gate was open, and going out, heard the cries of a child under the car just opposite bis gate. The child appeared to have been dragged for nine or ten. feet, and one. of the wheels had passed over her foo|. The toes had to be amputated at tlie honpital. The inquest was adjourned ti)l Thursday afternoon.

Archibald Nelson, aged fifty-two, was found dead in his hut on Sunday morning. He was employed at the Ocean Beach Freezing Works at the Bluff. Deceased (says a P.A. wire) had been ailing for some time, and heart trouble is presumed to bo the cause of death.• His wife lives at Mosgiel, and his daughter in Dunedin. An old-age pensioner, Win. . Blokes (seventy-three), was found drowned in Winding Creek, Waikaia, last evening.— P.A., telegram from Gore. An Auckland telegram states that Andrew M'Lcod, aged'forty-eight, fell off a tramcar on Saturday afternoon. He was found to be suffering from concussion, and was removed to the hospital, where he died yesterday. Clarence John Petersen, eighteen months of age, was found drowned in a creek at Kiore on Saturday afternoon. At the inquest yesterday a veidict of "Accidental drowning" was returned.-—Stratford telegram.