ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 July 1924, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TAUM ALEXEI, July 26. . Michael Whelan, a married man, aged 46. was admitted to hospital with a fractured spine. While travelling on a tool lev at the rear or a goods train ho lest his balance and fell, being struck by the axis in the small of the back. AUCKLAND, July 26. The body of a newly-born infant, wrapped in clothing, was found at th-r----back or premises in Eden Crescent. Jt had apparently been there two or three days. Lionel Storrs, single, 'aged 23, was found dead in his room in an apartment house in Sentinel, street, Pousonby, on Sunday. His head was wrapped in pillow eases, and gas was escaping from a tube near his mouth. He had apparently been dead since Friday. At the inquest the coroner gave a verdict of suicide from gars poisoning. Storss at one time was a steward on the lonic. Latterly he had been doing casual work for a city land agent. DUNEDIN. July 28. A youth named Peter Erlandson died during a football match between Balclutha and Clinton at Clinton on Saturday. He sat down at half-time. When a eompanian asked him if he was not feeling well he collapsed, and died almost immediately. CARTERTON. July 28. A fatal accident occurred at Crevtown yesterday. A young man named Frank FI. Rushton, aged 26, employed by J. ivleikle at his Ahiaknuka farm, was riding a horse, when he was thrown and seriously hurt. ' He was admitted to the Urey town Hospital, where he died. Inst night.- An’ inquest will lie held. The young man on me from Springfield. (,’a literburv UREYMCiUTTI. July 28. The death occurred last night of Jo-ieph Rigson, aged 67, the victim of an accident on Wednesday last at the Bimis mine, when he was struck by a rake of trucks while working at- the bottom of a jig. He received a severe injmy to his head.