ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 100, 17 June 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

WATERS! DE WORKER KILLEI). (Per Press Association A Christchurch, Last Night. Wm. Brewer, aged 35, a lumper on the wharf, was killed while working coal on the steamer Ngatoro at Lyttelton this morning. A big lump of coal was knocked out of the .basket and struck Brewer on the head, fracturing his skull. ROY’S FATAL FALL. Mastcrton, Last Night. 1 A hoy named Sydney Bertram Jo-

j hansen, twelve years of age, fell over |a cliff 100 ft. high sit.'ML Bruce, near Masterton, this morning. His body .struck a cliff at the bottom and rolled into the Ruamahanga River, whore !it was subsequently recovered. Tho base of the skull was fractured, and other terrible injuries wore sustained. KILLED BY A TRAIN. Gisborne, Last Night. A shocking accident occurred this evening at To Karaka railway station, by moans of which a little girl, Norma Phillips, aged 3) years, was ' killed. The little girl, with her , mother, boarded the train at To Karaka, intending to go further out into tho • country towards tho lino terminus. Just prior to tho train i moving off, Mrs Phillips rushed out. I of tho carriage and on to the platform to recover a parcel which she j had forgotten. The little daughter I followed - her mother, and had just reached the outer platform of tiie carriage when the train commenced to move. The unfortunate child was thrown out on to the permanent way oil tho outside of the train, and the wheels passed over her neck, almost severing tho head from tho body. /Tho. accident was not seen by anybody its the train - was between tno spectators and the victim, but the child’s mother was frantic with grief. Tho child’s father, recently drew a Government section at Otoko, ard the family were about to make it their homo.