ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22051, 6 September 1933, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD FATALLY BURNED (Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 5. Roger Broughton, aged three and a-half years, son of Mr and Mrs G. M. Broughton, of Invercargill, died in the Southland Hospital this afternoon as the result of burns suffered when his nightdress caught fire. His father was awakened at 6 o'clock this morning by the cries of the child, whose nightdress was ablaze. Mr Broughton pulled off the blazing garment, burning his own hands considerably in the process. It would appear from the number of dead matches found in the kitchen that the child had struck them, and accidentally set his clothing alight. FOOT CRUSHED BY TRAIN A married man named William Shearer, 31 years of age, living at Warrington, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 9 p.m. yesterday; suffering from a badly crushed foot. He was walking along the railway line while a train was passing, and, in endeavouring to avoid it, he slipped on the ballast, his foot being caught under a wheel.