FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 25 August 1937, Page 5

FATALITIES

CAR FALLS 25 FEET Farmer Drowned 1 Pern Press Association ]. PALMERSTON N., August 24. 3 A Bunnythorpe farmer, John Thomas, drove a car through the apv proach to the Mangaone stream '• bridge, on Milson’s line, Palmerston North, this evening, to somersault 3 to death in the stroam bed, twenty- ~ live feet below. ' Why the car should have left the road it is hard to understand, as the - highway is straight for a mile on each 1 side of the bridge. When discovered the car lay on its : side in two feet of water. Thomas 1 was already dead, he having been killed outright, possibly by a broken ’ I neck. Deceased was an elderly man, ' with a grown-up family of three sons ; and four daughters. A widow also ■ survives him. I . Sumner Tragedy MISSING WOMAN’S BODY. BENEATH CLIFFS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 24. High seas to-day frustrated further attempts to reach the body lying on the rocks beneath the cliffs on the ' Sumner side of Whitewash Head, and another effort to recover it will be made to-morrow. The body, which has been lying on the rocks since Saturday night, is believed to be that of Mrs A. Nicholas, a middle-aged woman, of 21 Petrie Street, Richmond, whose purse and coat were found on Sunday near the top of the cliffs. ELDERLY COUPLE GASSED. I Per Press Association]. CHRISTCHURCH, August 23. The death occurred on Friday, of Mr Robert Perrott, aged 87, in the Lewisham Hospital. Mr Perrott was discovered at his residence, 35 Chapter Street, on the afternoon of August 13, and his wife, aged 88, was found dead. The house was filled with gas. Inquests into both deaths have been opened, evidence being given in each , case by a son-in-law, Mr Albert Buckley, who stated that he called at the house, as was Iris custom, and getting no reply, and seeing a light burning in one of the rooms, he forced an entry finding Mrs Perrott in the kit- ' che’n dead, and Mr Perrott in bed < and breathing heavily. The gas was turned on, Mrs Perrott having been wakened, apparently by the smell. The inquests were adjourned. WOMAN’S FATAL DRINK. J CAMBRIDGE, August 24. ' Una Maud Millard, single, aged 28, employed at the Masonic Hotel, died last evening. . Shortly after eight o’clock she was , found in her room by another emplovee, drinking what appeared to be medicine. From a statement Millard ( made, it was realised something was ( wrong, and a doctor was summoned, , but his efforts were unavailing. Millard died an hour later. She left a qpte which will be lead at the inquest.

1 WHARE FIRE TRAGEDY. CHRISTCHURCH, August 23. Admitted to the Christchurch Puolic Hospital, on Sunday evening, suffering from severe burns on the arm and body, Mr Charles Henry aged about 50 years, died this aiteinoon from shock. Mr Trotter had been employed on a Banks Peninsula farm Belonging o Mr T Feather, senior, and it is believed'that at the time or his mishap he was airing some clothes in fiont of a large fire outside his wharc. Leaving his whare he returned later to find the clothes ablaze and in trying to recover them he was severely burnt. He was found by Mr Feather and was later attended by Dr. L. BBurnett, of Little River, being taken to the hospital by ambulance. A TERRIFIC NOSE DIVE. TWIN MOTORS GIVE OUT (Received August 24, 1.40 p.m.). SAN DIEGO, August 24. As the result of a flyingboat accident six are dead, and two arei injured seriously. Three bodies have been recovered. The plane was being brought down towards la " din ®. its twin motors sputtered and died out. The machine nose-dived into sixty feet of water with such f°^ e ’ the witnesses said, that the bodies were thrown many feet away. During the night, small boats, aided by searchlights from battleships and cruisers were used to search or the wreckage. Divers were also brought to the scene to weild grappling hooks. It is believed that the bodies remaining in the wreckage are so wedged that it will be imposBible to remove them until the machine is towed to shallower water. The plane was part of a squadron which had been to Honolulu several times. This is the squadrons first serious accident.

U.S.A. BUSHFIRE DISASTER. (Received August 24, 10 p.m.) CODY (Wyoming). Augqst 23. Another one of those injured in the forest fire has died. The flames are dying out, after burning more than 2,000 acres. It has been the nation’s worst timber fire for many years. GERMAN POWDER MAGAZINE DISASTER. (Received August 24, 10 p.m.) BERLIN, August 24. Twelve persons were killed and sixty-seven were injured in an explosion in a powder magazine at Interluess, near Hanover.