ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 28, 30 July 1924, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACCIDENT ON MOUNTAIN. Per Press Association. .Nelson. July 2D N. McClellan, of the Cawthron Institute staff, met with an unfortunate accident on the Mount Arthur track on Sunday, whereby his leftleg Was broken just above the ankle, caused by slipping when endeavouring to turn some cattle on to the track. Other parties wore in the vicinity and gave assistance, and eventually a pack-horse was secured and the injured man brought . clown, front the mountain track, railway crossing fatality. Christchurch, July 29, Henry W oodley, aged 62, a- married man and a retired farmer, late of Karnslaw station, Glenurehy, Otago, was struck by an engine at the ICnsor’s Road crossing at Opawa. to-night while walking over the line, receiving injuries from which he died on the way to the hospital in an ambulance, FALL FROM VIADUCT, ' Gisborne, July 29. As a result from a fill’ll from a viaduct, George Henry Williams, a farmer, of Rankaroa, lost his life tonight. As the train was nearing Rankaroa Williams stepped off on to the' viaduct but missed his footing and fell eighty feet to the road. He lav there for over an hour ami was then picked up and taken to the store, but he died later. Williams was about oQ years of age.