CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10850, 16 March 1921, Page 5

CASUALTIES

DASHING TO A FIRE

HOW BRIGADE FOREMAN MET HIS DEATH. COLLIDES WITH TRAIN. SUB PRESS ASSOCIATION. FEILDING, March 15. Feilding added one more to the list of railway-crossing fatalities this afternoon. when a man named Farnsworth lost his life. Deceased was foreman of the local fire brigade, and was hurrying on his motor-cycle to a fire when, not seeing the approaching New Plymouth express, he collided with it at the crossing He was thrown some distance and died in a few minutes from shock. Deceased leaves a wife and four little children. MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS. EAST COAST SETTLER KILLED. PKR PRESS* ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, March 15. Raymond Kemp, a well-known settler, was killed at Tokomaru Bay while he was driving from his station to Tokomaru to attend a. meeting. A passerby found his car overturned and Mr Kemp dead underneath it. A MAORI’S DEATH. , BAY OF PLENTY FATALITY. riK rnr.fs issncrwnt. WHAKATANE, March 15. At the inquest on Rapaki Pupiki, who was killed owing to the derailing of truck® on a Public Works train near Matata last week, it was found that there was no evidence to show how deceased came under the trucks. He was last seen clear of the line, after jumping or falling clear. The jury added a rider that it be a recommendation to the Public Works Department that the trucks for workmen should be trailed and not pushed, as the evidence in the case showedFALL OVER CLIFF. WORKMAN’S ESCAPE FROM DEATH. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. WHAKATANE', March 15. A second serious accident in a work occurred yesterday at 4 p.m. at the head works of the Whakatane electric light scheme at Awaponga Falls. Charles Porter, aged 50, was working at the edge of the face when he was struck on the head by a cheese-shaped rook weighing 301 b from the hillside and knocked over the cliff. He fell abont 20 feet to a rock ledge. The foreman, Mays, jumped over and saved the man from falling further. The injured man was hauled up with ropes and carried two miles to a motor road, and thence brought to the hospital. He suffered severe injuries to his head, face, and arms, and was badly bruised about the body. PHOTOGRAPHER DROWNED. FALLS INTO~A RIVER. R»R PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, March 15. William Edward Carter, aged 21, While taking photographs of the Rera river, near Centre Bush, slipped on the green vegetation, and fell from the rocky face into the river and was drowned. The body has been recovered.