FATALITIES & ACCIDENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 4

FATALITIES & ACCIDENTS

(UNrreD Press Association.) LONDON, Monday. Two tourists and a, guide were caught in a windstorm and a mist, and were frozen to dejth 05 Mpenchjock, Jungfrau. - ■• . T MELBOURNE, Monday,. Owing to the overturning of a:taxicab, Miss Florence Young, the actroaa, had a rib broken. CHRISTOHURCH, Mondiiy. At the inquest on John McTavish.i'who was killed on Saturday, the result of the axpress from the south running into his trap at the Sockburn crossing, a veidict was returned of accidental death, with a rider that the department might .consider the quesfiqn o| placing a crossingkeeper at that crossing,' "" ..i.. DUNEDIN, Moriftjy. . Mrs Thomas Bishop, aged 64 -years, an old resident of Balclutha, died^ifils. afternoon as . the result -if an sicßi]j«rit which occurred yesterday. Whils^' she fnd her daughter wdre walking' to church yesterday morning a cycliatnam.ed Ingram collided with her,.,.ij&ile>en deavoiiring to pass a trap.^and" kn6>kcl 1 her down. She appeared j.to be recover- j mc; from the effects of the «il^ck ; . but ' this morning she became worse, and tank rapidly. . Tho cause of her deatj w;ib hemorrhage of the brain ';■'"'