Accidents and Fatalities.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12289, 23 June 1903, Page 5

Accidents and Fatalities.

Per Press Association. Westpovt. June 22. Thomas Laicas. aged 20, a returned trooper, employed at the State C'olliery> fell from tho road at Mokihiniui lasi nig-ht and br<*ko his nook. He was quite sober, but the night was very dark. o- t Dunedin. June 22. - A- man? was" -^ut Tto pieces' alx>ut 330 > yards north of the lieech-street • sid~ I ing at W/aikouaiti by the 4 o'clock ] train from Duncvdm. A iisheiMivnn ; irom Puketaraki was refused a ticket at Waikouaiti station as he was in— , ; toxicat<'<l, aiid it is supposed ho. started to walk home, sat down, and went ( to sleep. The bocly was so miutilated ' tln'at the railway officials could not ' say if. it was that at the man who ' wag refused a ticket. • ! Gisborne; June 22. | At Wihatatutu a man named Jack- j son wab killed by a tree falling on him. ] | Napier, June 22. { •A 'telegram received to-night states * that a man named Henry Symomls was killesl at Waikaremoana by a tree falling on histwhare and eriishingihiin. Decea^e3 was a married man, hi* wife ami family living in Napier. Nelson, Jxtne 22. At the in'qtiest on Da\ns McGrane the evidence showed that the brothers 1 were going t<# bed when Edwin, seeing a pea rifle, which Davis had loaded and placed behind the door, piciked it xip to look at it, not knowing it was loaded, when ifc went off, arid his i bx*other, who was standing on tho -■ stairs, was stmiek by the bullet, which entered his cheek, anH passing Upwards, killecl ' him instantly. The verdict was accidental death, caused by the discharge of a pea rifle, by^ nrisadventure, contributed to by himself in ]eai\-itig. the lofle loaded, and no blame is attached to his brother, Edwin. Nelsion, June 23. A sibtocking fatality occurred on the railway at Spring (irove last erven— E ing*. Mr Jiames Thomas Smith, a ►Wai Jti pettier, ' anjcl a well-known cricketer a»iU Druid, left Nelson by : the 4.30 train. 1 He got oil at Spring. Grove to talk to hi» betrothed. H«o was too long on the station and the train moved off ; he attem/pte'd io jump aboard but foil under the platforhj and some carriages and a brake van went over him. mutilating hoih. legs. The young lady. fainted with^ horror. Smith was taken on the train and carried to, Wai Tti. where two doctors amputated both legs, but tho sufferer died from shod*-.