ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
KILLED BY A TBAIN. David 0. Stock, 09, employed by the Si Tiger Sowing Machine Company, was driving a vehicle towards Loom'con last night, and vviu caught by a train on the crossing at Dunsandei. Stock war. thrown out and kilied, his body being dragged some distance along the line. DOUBLE DROWNING. Pres.' Asi'iieiadon. INV.KECAKGILL, August 27. News ox a double drowning fatality in the vicinity of I'uysegur Point lighthouse readied town to-day. The light-house-keeper announced by telephone that the wif o of one of tfio keepers being ill, a man named Smith went to Coa! Island in an open boat to obtain the services of Mrs Loudon to nurse the sick woman. As the boat was returning it capsized and both the passengers were drowned. The body of Mrs Louden had been recovered when the news came through but there was then no news of the recovery of the body of Smith. - Mrs Louden's husband, who is employed on Coal Island, will be communicated with by Morse signals to-nigh 1 "
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 8
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