ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 May 1925, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RAILWAY HAND KILLED. ,111 I’LL KGlt APH WLiSS AbSOUIAAIO.N.J WANGANUI, May 18. When engaged m tire railway yards this afternoon, Gilbert Tremaine, a married mail, aged 33 was run over by a horse trucK, both legs being practically severed. He was taken to hospital, where he died to-nigiit.

A FATAL SEIZURE,

NELSON, May IS

While out tramping with two ol his children yesterday, Edgar Neve sue-) cumbed to heart seizure. Death occurred at the top of a high hill with precipitous sides. When tne clu dren conveyed tlie news of the incident searchers had difficulty in finding the body and conveying it to the valley below. Deceased leaves a widow and live enildren, MOTOR LORRY FALLS INTO LAKE. ASHBURTON, May 13. ; A sensational accident occurred at Lake Coleridge. A motor-lorry fell over a bank 100 feet high, turning two or three somersaults, into the shallow water of the lake at the power works intake. The driver, F. A. Barrett, a storekeeper of Horarata, went over with the lorry, but he miraculously escaped injury. The lorry was irreparably damaged. The accident is ascribed to the lorry inadvertently put into reverse gear. SUFFOCATED BY CAT, CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. A seven months’ old baby, Laura Eileen Wishers, of 330 Selwyn .Street, Addington, was suffocated by a cat 'ving across her face. This morning the child was dressed and put in its pram* on the sunny part o+' the verandah. At- 10.45 a.m. the eldest daughter went out on the verai* dah to find a cat -lying across the child’s face. She immediately called her mother, who saw there was .-something wrong with the child. A doctor was summoned, but all efforts at resuscitation failed.