ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18802, 3 March 1923, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD’S TERRIBLE FATE. CRUSHED TO DEATH. "S ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Peb United Paces Association-.) TAUMARLNUI, March 2. A distressing accident occurred in the Gwhongo railway yards ibis afternoon, resulting in a girl named Rita Rossi tor, aged 10 years, being killed, and her brother, Frank Rossiter, aged throe, being injured. The two children were watching some men trucking sheep, but were not noticed by the workmen.. Tho truck wns set in motion and the girl wns jammed between the truck and tho cattle yards, and sustained injuries to her . chest, to which she succumbed. Tie boy had his head crushed, but it is expected to recover.

A SUDDEN DEATH. (Feb United Pbess Association.) F KILLING, March 2. An old lady named Mrs Oarloy, died with tragic suddenness at tho railway station to-day. She went to see a friend off on tho train and immediately the train started she, collapsed on tho platform and died of heart failure. Deceased was a widow. WATERSIDE WORKER’S DEATH. While unloading caigo from the steamer KaJkoura at the Rattray street wharf yesterday morning a single man named Kenneth White, aped 24 years, who lives with liis father at Kavensbourue, was struck on the head by a sling. It appears that tho sling gave a lurch, and White attempted to dodge it, hut in doing so it crashed hia head against an iron girder. After the injured man had been attended to by the ship’s doctor he was removed to tho Hospital, where he was operated upon, but ho died at 10.45 a.m. An ironest was formally opened in the evening, and was adjourned after evidence of identification had been given. A man named William Nesbitt, who lives in Bay View road, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fracture of the right leg. caused by a stone rolling on him. During the fireworks display at the Caledonian Ground on Thursday night a young man named Alexander Saunders was struck on the hack of tho neck with a rocket and knocked unconscious. He was taken to the Hospital suffering from shock; but is now progressing towards leenvcry.