ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23403, 21 October 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DRAGGED UNDER TRAIN. Slipping as, he attempted to board the Fairlie train after it had left tb* Timaru station yesterday afternoon, Robert Sinclair Smith, a painter, of Waimate, was caught under tb* guard’s van and dragged to ins The accident occurred about 200yd* north of the station. Smith, who wa* an acting lance-corporal in the Canterbury Cavalrv, was on his way to • camp at Cave. With a companion, h* ran down Strathallan street’ as tb* train pulled over the crossing at th* foot of the street, and chased the train,Smith was a married man, aged about 35. It is understood that he leave* four children. He bad enlisted in th* special force on Wednesday. MALIGNANT MALARIA. An inquest was held at Wellington into the death of a seaman on a tanker which put into Wellington on Monday, and a verdict was returned that th* deceased, Erland Karlsen, aged 24, died from malignant malaria. H. Larsen,another seaman from the same vessel* is stated to be improving. COLLISION AT KENSINGTON. A passenger car collided with a lorr# near the Kensington Drill Hall lat* yesterday afternoon, and as a result Margaret Engstrom. an elderly married woman who resides at Maunga* tua, was admitted to hospital at * o’clock. She was suffering from sever# scalp wounds. CHOPPING ACCIDENT, As a result of severing _ his thumS while chopping wood at his home at Maungatua, George _ Hodgkins, aa elderly man, was admitted to hospital at 7 o’clock last night. FRACTURED FEMUR. A fall at his home at 4 Clark street resulted in a fractured right femur for Herbert William Ingram, a single man, 57 years of age. He was admitted t# hospital at 8.40 p.m. yesterday.