CANTERBURY FATALITIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 7 June 1909, Page 4

CANTERBURY FATALITIES

[United Pbess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. An old lady named Mrs Harriett Cook died to-day from injuries received by falling off a tram car in the Ferry road on the 3rd of June. Deceased alighted ; before the car stopped. ; A man named John Ernest Wood- j grough was found in a dying condition on top of the Port Hills yesterday afternoon. He died shortly afterwards. He , had set out earlier in the day for a j walk on the hills. j At Rangiora this afternoon an unmar- j ried middle-aged man named Frank Coates, met with an accident which i proved fatal. He was topping a pine j tree, about 25 foot from the ground, J when a gust of wind unexpectedly brokr ', the top, and he fell beneath it. A foot cf the tree fell on his thigh, smashing it from the groin to the knee. The doc tors attended him and amputated the damaged leg. A man named John Stevenson fell over the wharf, and was pinned between a steamer and its fender. His rich* thigh was badly crushed, and he died at midnight. It appears he was trying to pass another man between a railway truck and the steamer when he fell over (he edge of the wharf.