ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1937, Page 2

ACCIDENTS

RAIL TRACK TRACEDY. (Per Press Association —Copyright). CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. With his right leg severed at the ankle^'and his - other Teg - badly mutilated, and with severe cuts about the face and arms, Herbert de Castro Taylor, aged 60 years, a wharf labourer, of Woolston, was found unconscious, lying on the railway track outside of the Woolston station at 6.23 p.m. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance but he was found to be dead upon arrival. Taylor was first noticed by tbe driver of the 6.23 p.m. train from Lyttelton, who saw the body lying between the platform and tbe rails as the train drew into the station . He ini me diately told the stationmaster, and together they investigated, Dr E. H. H. Taylor was called, and an ambulance was summoned. The man was still alive when the ambulance left for the hospital. The police have established that the victim was not struck by the 6.23 train, and it is supposed that Taylor was either struck by an earlier train at 5.47 o’clock, or fell between the carriages as the train was moving oul of the station.

MAULED BY BULL. IN VERCARGILL, ' May 20. A resident ol‘ Lumsden, Andrew Crawford, was badly mauled by a hull this morning, as he was taking tinanimal back to a paddock from which it had escaped. The animal was walk ing along the road quietly, when i suddenly rushed at Crawford, and knocked hiqj down on the roadway, and pushed him about for a short distance. Fortunately it was in the direction of a fence, under which Crawford was able to crawl, and escape further injury .though he suffered from extensive abrasions oil his body, and his clothing was extensively torn.

INFANT DROWNED. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 20. The two-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Percy Griffiths, of Toko, was drowned in a stream near the house to-day. The child was missed. The footprints were followed to the bank of the stream. The body was recovered, hall a mile downstream. The father was at the time visiting New Plymouth. The mother collapsed, and she could give no indication of the child’s movements.

FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING. CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. Falling from a .scaffolding on a building at the Addington Trotting Grounds yesterday morning. William George Skerton. aged 42 years, a carpenter. of 7 Kensington avenue, was taken by ambulance to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where be was admitted at 11.30 o'clock suffering from internal injuries. His condition last- evening was reported as satisfactory.