ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1928, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

ELDERLY people killed. WOODVILLE, August 27. William Burnett’ sixty-eight, farmer, Kumeroa, a well-known resident for thirty-seven years, died this morning early, as the result of shock, following an accident, the previous evening, in which a runaway car knocked him down, lie leaves a widow, ..but no family. STRATFORD, August 27. Mrs Katherine Jones, sixty-nine, was killed at Fenton Street railway crossing on Saturday ev-cning. She was deaf and short-sighted, and an engine was only,a few yards away, when she stepped on the line. - WA.TMATE, August 27. While Alfred Quigley, a farmer, of Morven, was dewing a gig over the railway crossing near Waiinate, the vehicle was run into by a. train, the horse being killed instantly, and Quigley sustaining severe head wounds, being picked up unconscious on the grass a few’ yards from the crossing. Quigley, aged eighty, is slightly deaf and rather short sighted. The view’ of approaching trains is unobstructed for some distance from the crossing. QuigVv is in the hospital, and his condition is improving.

GISBORNE, August 27. Joseph Ward, employed as a sh epherd at AVaimata Valley, whilst riding around sheep, fell into a creek and sustained a broken leg. With great difficulty he managed to extricate hims If and crawled a mile to a whare in an exhausted condition. He met a mate riding over another part of the property, and was conveyed to the hospital.