ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9903, 23 November 1893, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per United Press Association.) Invercargill, November 22. Gerald Tolhurst, of Wellington, aged 21, son of the inspector of the Bank of Australia, lost his right leg below the knee as the result of an attempt to get on a train in motion to-day. He had gone to Thornbury hy the ordinary morning train, then hired a horse and rode to see some fiiends. There was a special in the afternoon, conveying friendly societies to Riverton, and Mr Tolhurst returned to Thornbury to catch ifc. He was late, and the train was crossing the road as he rode up. He threw the bridle to a bystander and jumped to board the train. He was tripped up by the cattle stop, and the wheels passed longitudinally from the heel fco the middle of the calf. H9 was taken on to the Riverton Hospital, where Dr Nelson at once amputated the right leg, the bones being smashed. Aucklajjd, November 22. The body of Kate Young, a young woman in domestic service at Cambridge, and missing for a fortnight, was recovered to-day in the Waikato river afc Ngaruawahia. An elderly man named Benjamin Christie, while walking up Burns street, Port Chalmers, yesterday afternoon fell dead. His body was taken to the morgue, where ifc awaits an inquest. A painter named Stephen O'Keefe, employed by Messrs Omand and . Drew, while engaged afc work on the National Mortgage Company's building in Bond streefc yesterday afternoon, fell, from a ladder, a height of about 30ffc, on to the asphalt, and sustained a compound fracture of the leffc forearm besides being cut about the head. Mr Mearns, who was sent for when the accident occurred, rendered first aid, and O'Keefe was then conveyed to the hospital. The doctors ia attendance on Miss Coutts, who was so seriously and terribly injured at Onehunga recently through coming into contact with a telegraph pole, report that their patient continues to make good progress towards recovery. She is now able to sit up.