ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16491, 5 March 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRACTION ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED. ITsb Press Association.] NAPIER, March, 4. A fatality occurred this morning at Puketitiri, about thirty-five miles inland from. Napier, whereby a single man, named Allen Nicholson, twentythree years old’, lost his life. Nicholson was driving a traction engine bringing two truckloads of timber to the town, and when an embankment, about a mile along the road, was reached the steering chain carried away, and the engine went oyer the side, dragging a truck with it into a gully twelve feet deep. The engine turned completely over, and Nicholson was struck on the head by the draw pin of the trailer, the iron penetrating the head and causing instantaneous death.

KNOCKED DOWN BY A MOTOR-

CAR. ' [From Our Correspondent.] WAIMATE, March 4. Miss Kitty Ferriter, whilst returning home via High Street on Tuesday night, was knocked- down by a motorcar leaving Waimate for Oamaru. She was taken to a private hospital, where it was found 1 that no bones were broken. She sustained some injuries to her head and arms, but nothing of a serious nature. She was dragged for several yards before the car dropped her.

A BROKEN LEG. t [From Oijr Correspondent.]'

WAIMATE, March 4. Whilst working on his parents’ farm at Waituna with his team this morning, Mr Frank Newton met with a serious accident. The reins broke and the horses bolted. Mr Newton was thrown out, and the drav went over him, breaking his right leg at the thigh. He was taken to the Public Hospital.

DUNEDIN FATALITIES. [Per Press Association. 1 DUNEDIN, March 4. William Henry Waldren, hansom cab-<lriver, aged twenty-eight, and unmarried, tvas found dead 1 in his bed at an early hour this morning. He retired to his room at 7.30 the previous evening, and lay down partially undressed. A friend named Hathaway, who was sleeping in the same bed, saw the deceased at 11.30, when he was all right. At 5.30 a.m. Hathaway woke, ana saw that Waldren was dead. At the inquest a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony that death was duo to thrombosis, a form of heart disease. * The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Doocey. who died somewhat suddenly on Saturday evening, was continued to-day. It was supposed that' death was due to a fall, sustained as the result of deceased being bumped by a drunken man in the street about midday on Saturday. A verdict was returned of death from natural causes, namely, inter-cerebral pressure, duo to cerobral liremorrhage.

MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.] GORE, March 4. A narrow escape from a serious mo-tor-car accident occurred near M’Nab last night. Tho County Council is reconstructing a small bridgo over the main -oad ana an excavation 10ft wide and 6ft deep is only shown up by a single oil lamp on tho Gore side of the excavation. Mr Gilbert Wise, a local dentist, returning from Dunedin by oar, with Mr Hood, dentist, at 9.30 p.m., dashed into the excavation, with the result that Hood was thrown through the wind-shield and seriously cut and bruised. Wise retained bis seat, but received severe bruises. Wise intends proceeding against the Southland County Council for damages i