CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10538, 15 March 1920, Page 5

CASUALTIES

DISTRESSING FATALITY RACE TRAIN SCRAMBLE; A ■WOMAN KILLED. PEn PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, March 1-1. A distressing fatality occurred on a special train which was returning from the Cheviot races last night. As the train, which was crowded, drew into Kangiora station about 9 p.m., a rush was made for the refreshment room for tea, and it is stated a good number of passengers got off before the train had stopped. Mrs AlcEnnis, wife of Mr J. McEuuis, resident engineer of the Railway Department, in attempting to alight-, either slipped or was accidonlv pushed in the crush and fell between two carriages. • The second carriage passed over her neck. Death was instantaneous. Mr McEnnis was also on the train and had alighted before his wife to get her a cup of tea.

SERIOUS CITY ACCIDENT. VICTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION. A serious accident, whereby he sustained a perforation of a lung and several broken ribs, tefcl Mr Robert C. Renner, a well-known land agent ,;in the city, a.t about 10.30 a.m. on Saturday. The unfortunate gentleman, who resides at No. 10, MneFarlano street, was cycling along Lambton quay when a horse-drawn vehicle owned by Messrs Barber and Company, butchers, came into collision with him and he was thrown heavily to the wooden blocks. He was carried into the Midland Hotel, where be whs attended by Dr TV. Herbert. Subsequently, he was removed' to the Bowen street private hospital, the authorities of which, at a late hour last night, reported that his condition was critical. A SUDDEN DEATH.. A single man named John Mitchell, aged 43 years, died suddenly at his place of residence in Thorndon quay ftt 10 a.m. yesterday. As the deceased had only been treated by a doctor for muscular rheumatism" an inquest will be necessary. STABBED TO HEART. With regard the sad fatality reported recently from the Gladbrook Soldiers’ Settlement, near Middlemarch, by which a young soldier-settler named James Smith lost his life, the following particulars are, now to hand: —Some ais soldier-settlers were assisting'a comrade to get his crop stacked, and had almost finished. Four of them, including the deceased, were sitting with their backs to the stack chatting, and one man was forking up sheaves from the other side of the stack, almost immediatelv opposite where the party were sitting. In hoisting a sheaf the fork slipped from the forker’s "hands, and carrying "over the top of the stack penetrated the deceased’s back, and entered his heart, killing hint almost instantly. Deceased, whose pafents reside in the North Otago district, was married only a few weeks ago. BOTH HANDS CUT OFF. A serious accident occurred at a sawmill at IJaraeroa, near Raetihi, last week. A young man named Tocker bad both hands cut off at the mill. He was attended to by Dr Griffen and taken to Taihape hospital. The mill is situated at Mangaturoa, on the Pipiriki road, about three miles from Raetihi. FOUNDYeAD. FIB PBESS ASSOCIATION. MASTERTON, March 14. An old identity of Masterton, George William Schroder, was found dead in a public park yesterday with a doublebarrelled gun lying over this body. Deceased, who was about seventy years of age, had been depressed, since the death of his wife some months ago. He was a native of Nelson and one of the first drapers in Masterton.