ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
MINER FALLS UNDER TRAIN. A fatal accident occurred at the Grcymouth railway station at 9 o’clock on Saturday evening. Paul Bromilow, aged thirty-five, a miner, single, while attempting to board a train ■ leaving for Rewanni, missed his footing and fell between two cars. The back bogie wheel passed over his body, causing frightful mutilation. He lived only a brief time. The coaching foreman, Mr Adkin, boarded the guard’s van and applied the emergency brako so promptly that only ono wheel passed over the man. The deceased came to the Coast last November from Avoca, Canterbury.
FATAL FALL FROM BANISTER. Alexander Tennant, accountant in the Bank of Australasia, a married man with one child, when sliding down the banister of the Club Hotel, Invercargill, overbalanced and fell 20ft on to a concrete floor on Saturday evening. He fractured his skull, and died at 2 p.m. yesterday at tbo Southland Hospital. An inquest will bo held. FALL FROM BICYCLE. A fourtccn-year-old lad, named Raymond J. Wilson, was taken to tho hospital on Saturday night suffering from a scalp wound and from shock. He fell from Ids bicycle as a result of tho brake failing to act while he was riding down tho Pine Hill road. The boy (a telegraph messenger) lives with Ids parents at 15 Douglas terrace, North-east Valley.
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Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 6
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