ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2224, 30 October 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A WHATATUTU FATALITY.

News was received in town yesterday that a man named Chas. Jones, aged irom 30 to 3d years, had been tailed whilst bushfelling at IVhatatutu. Particulars received by telephone last evening are to the effect that the -accident occurred through a tawa tree “throwing back” and falling in on top of another tree. The unfortunate man was pinned down and fearfully crushed across the chest, death being instantaneous. One of his mates, Bert Barton, had a narrow escape, his axe being thrown a distance away by a limb of the Tree. There were some eight or ten men working in tho neighborhood, and they had to chop the tree to extricate, the victim. The fatality occurred om Messrs Mander and Dod’s property,, and the body was carried through six; miles of fallen bush to Mrl Dod’s; homestead, tho bearers being Messrs B. Barton, J. Grant, W. Green, In Aitkin, H. Connell, J. Desmond, J. Olsen, Bielvaski, W. Bracken, and others. Mr, Wright’s vehicle then took tho body on to -Wliatatutu, where an inquest will bo held at 2 p.m. to-day. Tho deceased was a native of Tasmania, and so far as is known had no relatives in New Zealand. It is undedstood he had in his possession an accident insurance policy (expiring on the 31st iust.) for £3OO.

Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 29'.. Tlie body of George Lindsay Duke, a High School boy, ajred 16, who went fishing at New River on Saturday afternoon, and cliff not como back, was found yesterday afternoon on a sand slioa.l about 300 yards below where he is supposed to have fiillen in.