ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 December 1934, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

CANADIAN RAILWAY SMASH 17 KILLED—4I INJURED [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Received December 27, 11.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, December 26. Seventeen were killed and 41 injured, many gravely, when the De-troit-Toronto express, travelling at sixty miles an hour, followed an open switch, and crashed into an excursion train on a. siding, seven miles from Hamilton. Three carriages were telescoped. It was difficult to extricate the bodies. The crew worked two hours with acetylene torches in the attempt to free a man pinned in a sitting position. CHILD DROWNED. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, December 26. While picnicking at Momorangi Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, yesterday, Marion Janet M’lntyre, aged seven years, the daughter of George Lowe M’lntyre, orchardist, of Spring Creek, went in paddling with other children. She was not missed for some time, then the body was seen floating in the water and was recovered, but the child was dead. She could not swim.

RACING CYCLIST INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, December 27. Lionel Radford, a prominent racing cyclist, met with an accident yesterday, while competing in athree-mile race at Little River annual sports, and received head injuries. Radford was riding fast in the second lap. helped by a slight grade. He was at top speed when a Maori, Peter' Taylor, stepped out on the track. An official pu,lled him back, but not quick enough, Radford knocking him down. Taylor received head injuries also. Radford is in hospital, and his condition is satisfactory. OTAGO VICTIMS. DUNEDIN, December 26. The death occurred in hospital of George William Brown, 38 years of age, who was admitted on Saturday night* with severe head injuries sustained in a motor accident in the city. Mrs Frances Sheen, o£ Temuka, while travelling by motor-car to Dunedin yesterday with her husband, sustained a broken leg when the car collided with another car at Evansdale Bridge. GIRL SHOT. NELSON, December 26. Winnie Rowling, youngest daughter of Mr. S. Rowling, of Riwaka, was seriously injured through the accidental discharge of a pearifle. She went out on the verandah of her home carrying a pearifle with the intention of driving away some starlings, which were causing a disturbance on the roof of the house. She slipped on the steps and the rifle discharged. Maureen Rowling was the only other person in the house at the time, and sho found her sister on the ground and the rifle some distance away. Winnie was removed to the Nelson Hospital. TWO DROWNED. AUCKLAND, December 25. A double drowning accident occurred in the Waikato River this afternoon, near the Tuakau bridge. The victims were: —• Roy Lowrie, aged 26, married, a farmer, of Bombay. Rex Wallingford Bush, aged 19, single, a shop assistant, of Tuakau. The tragedy was witnessed by Lowrie’s wife and two young children, Bush’s elder sister, and several other persons. Bush went for a swim, and suddenly called for help. Lowrie rushed into the water to assist Bush. He reached and caught, him, but after making fruitless efforts to move toward the shore, he must have released his grip for. Bush disappeared from view. Lowrie then tried to regain the land, but ajmost immediately sank, and did not appear again.

HOPE SADDLE CAPSIZE. . NELSON, December 27. Those injured in the motor accident at Hope Saddle on Christmas day are making satisfactory progress. The motor was not one of Spiers regular service cars, but a smaller car used on special occasions.