ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 September 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Last evening the electric rail ear which runs on the branch line to Little River, Canterbury, overtook a railway employee. Frederick William Wiley, who was on a jigger. Wiley was seriously injured, and died soon after admission to hospital. His left, foot had been almost severed and he had other severe hurts. The elec trie car travels very speedily and almost silently, and allegations have been previously made that the whistle which the car carried was not sufficiently loud

Joseph Olliver. aged 15. employed at the Dominion Mirror and Glass Company’s works, Christchurch, was severely burned yesterday. He had been cleaning out a kerosene tin with turpentine and, opening the door of a furnace in the boiler house, threw the contents into the fire. A great sheet of flame belched from the furnace door, burning the boy’s face, chest and hands, and causing him to stagger half-blinded from the room. He was rushed to hospital, where it was found that his injuries were severe, even the inside of his mouth having been burned.

Mrs. Fuge, the wife of a Hikurangi miner, Joseph Fuge, aged 56, found her husband dead in bed last night when she returned home from a social gathering. When finishing his shift of work at 8 p.m. Fuge had complained of internal pains. A medical certificate of death due to heart failure was given.