ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15862, 27 February 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A TRAIN WRECKED.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

VANCOUVER, February 25

Salt Lalco City reports that greased rails caused the wreck of a train and the loss of four lives at Bingham. The engine fell over an embankment, landing on the roofs of a bank and other buildings. It is believed that g:ease was placed on the rails by a revengeful employee.

I'Per Press Association.j AUCKLAND, February 26. Gwendclina Thompkins, a single woman, aged thirty-livo years, who had been unwell lor some time, died suddenly yesterday. She had been attended by a doctor for some days, and was apparently improving when she was suddenly taken seriously ill and died before the doctor could reach her. Dr larkes refused a certificate and a post-mortem examination revealed nothing to cause death. An analysis of tne stomach is to Tho bndv of a man, James Gibbons, labourer, was found m the harbour yesterday. In a pocket of his coat was an unopened bottle of hsol. Gibbons left bis lodgings three weeks ago and tho landlord supposed lie hac. gone t 0 'WELLINGTON, February 26 William George Brett, aged fortythree, machinist, died in the hospital on Saturday after tho application oi an anaesthetic preparatory to an operation for the removal of an abscess on the scalp. The coroner returned a verdict of death from heart failuie A middle-aged man, named Arthur Chote, was found yesterday afternoon bv Mr Joseph Clogue. of frentnam, lying near the Hutt River with a deep wound in his throat. A razor was l'nttcd to tlio Hospital. His condition this afternoon was not changed. STRANGE ACCIDENT. THREE TAXI-CABS TELESCOPED. A strange accident happened in Here, ford Street, between High Street and Manchester Streets, at 2.30 p.m yesterday. Two horsos attached to a van belonging to the New Zealand Express Company bolted down the street towards High Street at a gallop. In their career, they reached the end ot a long lino cf taxi-cabs, pulled up on the stand there. As soon as the. horses became close to the last taxi-cab they tried to go on each side oi it. A lie result was that one of., the horses ian along the right side of'the cab, buuthe other one dashed into tho back or It with head and shoulders. Tho bacx of the car was splintered, tho iron work being twisted in all directions. llie force of the impact thrust tho cab forward. It collided violently with‘toe cab in front, and in that way three of the cabs were telescoped. The first auc second were somewhat severely damaged, the third to a less degree, arid a fourth,had its hind lamps crumpled up. The driver in the first cab had 4 very narrow escape from being badly injured. A passer-by, who saw the horses coming, cried out to him. and be just had time to jump out of his cah before the collision took place. The horses were uninjured.

T. M’Gratb, who was injured in a motor-bicyclo accident in Manchester Street on Saturday, regained consciousness at the hospital yesterday morning. Mrs Savage, wife of the proprietor of the Railway Hotel, Amberley, met with ,an accident on Sunday evening. She was crossing a broad covered drain, and on stepping on the end of n board which was unnailod it tipped up throwing Mrs Savage heavily to tho ground and breaking her collarbone.