ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
CHILD FATALLY BURNED. Roger Broughton, aged three and a-half years, son of Mr and Mrs G. M. Broughton, of Invercargill, died m the Southland Hospital yesterday afternoon as the result of burns suffered when his nightdress caught fire. His father was awakened at. 6 o clock in the rooming by the cries of the child, whose nightdress was ablaze. Mr Broughton pulled off the blazing garment, burning his own hands considerably , in the process. It would Appear from the number of dead matches found nt the kitchen that the child had struck them, and accidentally, set his clothing alight.—-Press Association. FOOT CRUSHED BY TRAIN. William Shearer, a married man, 31 years of age, who lives at Warrington, was brought to the hospital at 9 p.m. ' yesterday with a badly crushed yah. He was walking along the railway near Warrington while a train passing, and, in endeavouring to avoid it, slipped on the ballast, his foot being caught under a wheel.:
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Evening Star, Issue 21509, 6 September 1933, Page 6
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