HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 5

HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS.

tUMP FROM A TRAIN. VISITOR'S TRAGIC DEATH. ALLS UNDER C ARM AGE. GREEN LANE FATALITY. fatal railway accident occurred at the ecu I.me railway station at, about 8.45 n. on Saturday, when a married man med Ernest Frederick Towers, a sawmill med Ernest Frederick Towers, a sawmill nd at Mercer, was killed instantaneously rough being run over by a train. 'lowers arded the train at Mercer, in order to xeed to the rates at Ellerslie. The lin did not stop at Oreen Lane, but >wed down to tive or six miles an hour len running through the station. Towers nt out on to the platform, niter tolling o boys he was join,' to jump off at the en: Lin platform, lie prepared to ike a jump, and "suddenly disappeared der the train. The guard's attention is called to the ; dent, and the train is svpjvd. The body was found on the IP M ine distant e bark nearly uit in two, d otherwise mut'lated. The remains were brought to the lrtuiry. and an inquest was opened ere before Mr F. \ . l'razer, S.M., on turdav afternoon. Only evident. of identification was called d the inquest was adjourned till 10.30 m. on Friday, at the .Magistrate's Court. NOCKED DOWN NEAR TUNNEL. WORKER'S LUCKY ESCAPE. The train whi'h was responsible for the lath of Ernest Towers on Saturday also locked down a permanent wav man pied Robert A. Sanders, who was workig at the Newmarket end of the Parnell mnrl. Sanders was struck by the engine, lit was thrown clear of the line. Tho ain was stopped, and he was brought to iwn, and sent to the hospital, where it as found he was suffering from bruises, o bones were broken. ALLANT ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. :amaki river accident. | [NQUEST OX ONE VICTIM. The body of William XwTiolls. of ie victims of the Tamaki River boating talitv. which occurred on Friday, was und in the river near the scene of the •cident on Saturday morning. An in- ■ lest was held by Mr. A. R. Harris at [ahuhu in the afternoon. John Janeson, the only survivor stated ! lat between eleven o'clock and mid- , ght on Friday William Nicholls, John i air, and himself left, Otahuhu in a ! ngliy for Flat Rock in order to fish. I bout half-past one o'clock on Saturday ! prill Nicholls stood up in the boat, air leaning over the other side to keep j e boat, steady. Nicholls lost his balance I id the little craft overturned, all three en falling into the water. Witness got •Id of Hair and Nicholls and took them I the boat, to which they clung. He 1 en got the painter and proceeded to : w the boat to the shore. Both men, ! iwever. let go fhoir hold, but. he recov- j cd them and again succeeded in cutting i em to the overturned boat. '1 hey held on i it for a little while and then both J sappeared. Ho called for assistance, and I lother boat came along, but he had j en gamed shallow vater, though he j is in an exhausted state. A verdict of " accidentally drowned" as returned. The coroner praised the induct of Janeson, and said lie would ■ins the matter under the notice of the oval Humane Society. Hair's body has not yet been recovered.