ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 214, 9 December 1925, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press. Association). Walter Teague, tram conductor, received ii fracture of the right thigh through being crushed between a train and a trailer yesterday at Cbristenurch. Teague is aged 23, and married . While a motor tractor was being driven un a hill at Drury, Auckland, by Helga* Hansen, a contractor, it capsized backward and Hansen was Dinned beneath the tractor. He sustained injuries of a very serious nature, liis right leg being severely crushed. .John Stewart Bailey, seven years of age .was drowned bv falling off a pontoon on the foreshore at/J'hamos last evening between six and seven o’clock. The body was found after midnight. 'I he boy was playing with a companion of the same ago. who saw him fall in. hut went home to bed, saying nothing to anybody.

A young man named James D. Hay, a clerk in the traffic office of tho Railway Department at Wa ganui, had his left log and right heel Ijadly cru.shed last night through being run over by a waggon that was being shunted at Arainoho. He was riding a cyclo towards the platform when tho cycle skidded and he fell on tho path in front of tho oncoming waggon. Ho was removed to hospital, where the left leg was amputated at the thigh. His condition is serious. Uonsidorablo anxiety is being felt in tho Rowan district concerning the whereabouts of a man whoso identity has not born definitely established. Apparently he is lost on Egmont mountain reserve. At midday on Mon-, flay a man driving a Ford car made inquiries from settlers at the end of tiie metalled road as to how much iurther he could go in the car. Later he left the car on tho edge of the bush and entered on foot. Since then he has not been seen. From papers left in the car behind the man might be 11. Hanson, employed on a farm in tho district. Hanson is known to be an experienced bushman. It is surmised that he mot with an accident while in file reserve. The police are organising search parties. A taxi driver named James Gilmour, aged Io years, ol Napier, was found with Ins throat mt lying in a pool of blood in his lodgings last night. A blood-stained razor was found in his hand. H e was removed to the Napier Hospital, whore it was reported to-day that his condition was not serious. A painful injury befel Air. John Mc- \\ hinnie. ol .Masterton. with the result that he will bo incapacitated for some time. At 5 p.m., when all customers’ horses are supposed to ho removed Ironi the stables at tho rear of the M.b.U.A. store, Air. McWhinnie proceeded to place the bridle on a horse whose owner was late in calling for it. As the blinkers were lieing slipped over the animal’s nose it snapped at .Mr, AlcWhinnie’s head and imbedded it teeth firmly through his lips ami below his chin. Wirh difficulty Mr. AfcWhinnie freed himself from the grip ol the vicious bute, but not before hr h.i<] been badly disfigured and painfully hurl.