ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FROM FALL

(P.A.) CAMBRIDGE, July 8. Victor Looker, aged 49, married, with a family of nine, a farmer at the Kairangi settlement, who worked in the winter months at the Karapiro hydro works, was killed instantly this morning when he fell from the top of the dam down one of the cooling slots, a drop of 100 feet. Workmen stated that they saw Looker stumble and then fall. He was attending to lights on the dam at the time

WOMAN’S FALL FROM WINDOW

(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE. July 8. A few hours before the time fixed for her to leave the institution, Gertrude Mary Wood, a widow, aged 59, jumped or fell from a window in the women’s ward at the Dannevirke Public Hospital on to a concrete path 15 feet below, receiving a fracture of the base of the skull and other injuries from which she died shortly after being discovered.

TOSSED BY BULL

(P.Aj ’ LEVIN. July 8. While working on his father’s farm near Levin on Saturday, Douglas Sorenson, a young man, was attacked by a Friesian bull. Luckily the bull's first toss threw him over a fence to safety. Sorenson received a gash which required a number of stitches.

RUN OVER BY TRAIN

(P.A.) ASHBURTON. July 8. When she rolled under a carriage of the north express at the Ashburton railway station on Saturday evening, Mrs Amy Elsie McLaughlan. aged 66, of 15 Calder street. St. Kilda. met almost instantaneous death. She was a passenger on the express, which was moving slowly along the front of the station before stopping Mrs McLaughlan got off the carriage behind two men and fell on her back on the platform, before rolling under the carriage. After the train had been stopped she was lifted from under the carriage, but she was dead when Dr W. R. Todd arrived.

Mrs McLaughlan was to have been met at Christchurch by her married daughter, Mrs J. Mackersy, of Nelson, who had travelled from Nelson to meet her mother.