ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 1.. I oicgraph—Prpss Association. Wanganui, Tuesday. A serious accident occurred last night on the Parapara road, 35 miles inland from Wanganui. Thomas O'Neill, who was shot in the stomach, was carried seven miles on a stretcher, then a doctor was telephoned for, but while the doctor was operating O'Neill succumbed.

While motoring out at two o'clock this morning a car containing Dr. Wilson and two of O'Neill's brothers went over a bank at & bend in the road 50ft. deep. All received a severe shaking, and Jack O'Neill concussion, and the car was smashed. O'Neill was carried to a settler's house, where he lies unconscious. There are no further particulars. Later. About one. o'clock on Tuesday a telephone message from Kakatihi, about thirty miles distant, stilted that Tom O'Neill, a well-known young settler, had been grievously injured in the stomach. The injured; man was being carried to the main road, and a doctor and a priest were sumlmoned from Wanganui. A motor-car containing a doctor, Father Viband, O'Neill's brother ami the chauffeur, left about 2 a.m. All went well till Aberfeld'ie was reached, where the car went over a bank twenty feet below the road. It struck a manuka tree, the occupants being thrown out. O'Neill sustained concussion of the brain, and the others were badly shaken. But for the collision with the tree the car would have gome over a precipice fifty feet deep. The doctor and the priest proceeded to Kakatihi, where an operation wao performed! and the rites of the church administered to the injured man, who died about 10 o'clock. Reticence is being observed, but from what can be gathered it appears that about 11.30 on Monday evening the deceased was in his room, ostensibly for the purpose of retiring to bed, when he called out to his brother and others in the house. Rushing in, they found him with a terrible gash in his stomach. He would not indicate how the gash was made, but realising that he was dying expressed a wish to make a will. KILLED BY A LIVE TORE. Wellington, Tuesday. T. C. Parker, an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, while working on a telephone pole, touched a live wire and fell to the ground, breaking his arm. He died in the pital from shock soon after admission.