ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Southland Times, Issue 17014, 12 April 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DOUBLE DROWNING ACCIDENT. (Per United Pi ess Association). GISBORNE. April 11. A sad double fatality occurred to-day resulting iu the death of an unknown man and a boy named Gordon Brown. 1 1. appear- Ural the man and Gordon Brown and another boy named Frederiek | Alien were fishing on the groyne when [a heavy sea swept them into the water, i Alien was rescued Ivy means of a life | line thrown by a man named George | Cosell. j A dredge hand named ll■ • wilt Douglas plnckil.v dived into d;.- In -llin g, stiff and jat tempted •tvsi-tm Brow:.. I!" reached ■ him. lull vv i ; unable to bring him ashore las he was enta igled in a fishing line wkiieh ho had 'even irditg. and Douglas i had to hug., j, ; order to save himself. i The unknown man wa : about J" years |of age. Blown was the son of respect.rd j parent-. I'p to a late hour the bodies j had not been recovered. Later. | A. man named Goat ley, who laid boon employed ;■ a wharf labourer, is missing f.. in Be .ft fa ml Cafe, where he has heeit s,-;\and as it is known that lie intend d going fishing this morning, it is almost certain that he was the unknown ■. ictlin of the drowning fatality at the Groyne. Goa!ley supposed to have come from Melbourne, and had been in Gisborne six weeks. LIS I MX. April 10. Two motor l:u uses collided on a hill at Oporto, and one of tho vehicles was hurled over a precipice. Nine passengers were killed and seven others are in a critical condition. TEMARU. April 11. In order to avoid a collision with a gig at a street crossing in a quiet part of the town this afternoon, the owner and driver turned a big motor car too sharply round a, corner with tho result that one hind wheel collapsed and the car fell on Us side, throwing out the driver and four or fiye young women passengers. The ear neverlbelc's hit the gig. threw it forward and capsized it. Tho driver of the car had his collarbone and one or more riles broken ; his sister and Miss K. Ardagh, daughter of the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, both, suffered severely from concussion and bruises ; other occupants of the car escaped with scratches and bruises. Tho man in the gig (Mr B. Butler) struck the kerb with his head when lie fell, was cut about the face and later showed symptoms of skull fracture. Ambulance men did good service before doctors arrived in removing the .patictus, farce of them to (lie hospital. A (all hedge at the corner was probably a factor in bringing about the accident.