FATAL ACCIDENTS, ETC.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7648, 23 August 1886, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENTS, ETC.

SAD ACCIDENT AT PELICHET BAY.

On Saturday evening Mr Peter Grant, of the well-known firm of contractors, P. and W. Grant, mot his death at thePelichetßay railway station under somewhat peculiar circumstances. Deceased resided at Ravensbourne during the past 16 or 17 years, and usually journeyed home from town by the 6.20 p.m. train. The guard of that train on Saturday evening last, John Jack, states he last saw deceased alive on the platform of the Dunedin station shortly before the train started. William Hoff and Edward Kellet, who live at Ravensbourne, were at the Pelichet Bay station when the train mentioned arrived there, and before getting into a carriage noticed Mr Grant standing alone on the platform of the foremost carriage. They got into this carriage, but both entered the back part of it, and just as the train started thought that the carriage wheels must have gone over a stone. They did not see deceased again, and it never occurred to them that he might have fallen off the platform. About 7 o'clock two young men, named Arthur S. Burns and David E. Hutton, who had been out boating wer j returning to their homes, and observed the body lying 30ft north of the stationhouse between the inner rails and the platform. They informed the stationmaster, who communicated with tho police, and the body was removed to the morgue. The head was nearly severed from the. body. Deceased had evidently fallen over the bar of the platform and alighted on his back, when a wheel of the carriage almost severed his head. There was blood and hair on the rail close by. When on the platform he was seen to have a largo parcel with him, and this, 251b in weight, was found near the body. Deceased, who was a most industrious and hard-working man, was about 45 years of age. A wife and five young children are left to mourn their loss, and \vhat makes the case the more distressing is that Mrs Grant is in a delicate state of health just now. An inquest will be held before Mr Carew, E.M., this afternoon. It may be mentioned that the driver of the train, Chas. Rollo, did not notice anything unusual when leaving the Pelichet Bay station, nor did any of the passengers except the two young men previously referred to as having joined the train at Pelichet Bay. Besides the engine there was only a truck and a van in front of the carriage from the platform of which deceased fell.

THREE CHILDREN DPOWNED AT BAY OF ISLANDS.

(Pbk United Pljess Association^

Auckland, August 21.

A sad boating fatality occurred yesterday at the mouth of the Kerikeri river, Bay of Islands, - resulting in the death of two boys named Hanson and one girl, tho daughter of Mr Montain. A searcli party succeeded in recovering the bodies of two of the children.

On Thursday (says the Christchuroh Press) a telegram was received by Mr P. Lawrence, of the Club Hotel, Sydcnharn, from his son, who is on the West Coast, statiDg that his partner, Mr William Porter, son of the Key. Win. Porter, of Auckland, had been drowned while crossing Jackson's river at tho latter end of last month. No details of the accident are yet to hand.

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