ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14988, 7 May 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Py.a Press Associatiox.l WELLINGTON, May 6

This morning, at 6.10, a man named Hamilton Rodgers fell dead on a footpath in Taranaki Street while conversing with an acquaintance. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 6. William Auchinachie, an old and respected resident of Palmerston North, was killed by the mail train this afternoon. Deceased, who was sixty years old and crippled with rheumatism, was crossing tho line as the train approached, and absentruindedly took no notice of the whistles. Tho cowcatcher carried him two chains, and ho was shockingly mutilated,' death resulting almost immediately. Auchinachie, who was a native of Scotland, lived for some years at Kaikoura and Rangiora. Patrick Coe, storekeeper at Eoputarua, was killed by the afternoon train from Wellington yesterday. He fell asleep on tho line on his way homo from Shannon, and the train ran over his head.

A peculiar accident happened to a motor-cyclist coming from Kaiapnj on Wednesday evening. A cat, dazzled apparently by tho bicycle light, ran rignt in his track, getting tangled up in the front wheel, throwing the rider heavily to the ground and bruising him rather severely. On being extricated from the wheel the cat ran off apparent!/, uuhurt.