ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14397, 3 January 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TWO MEN KILLED. Per Press Association. TIMARU, Jan. 2. As the second express from the south approached Temuka station this evening. a horse and dray, with two men in it, were standing near Buxton’s store at the railway yard. The whistle of the engine caused the horse to bolt. It rim across the line ill, uont of tins train." The engine'struck tho. wheel and 1 smashed, tho klray to matchwood. The engine carried the two men a shorf distance, and, killed and mangled them frightfully/ Both w'ere residents of Temuka: John M’AuUffc, a labour-' or, a widower with six or seven young children-, and AVm. Snell, a retired farmer, with a family of grown men. Both were old residents and highly respected in Temuka. The station yard is admitted to ho very dangerous. This is the fifth fatality, and efforts- to have a public crossing made near the site of tho fatality will bo renewed. THROWN FROM A HORSE. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 2. James Campbell, aged 52, a bnshjnnn residing at Clifton, wars killed by being thrown from his horse on Sunday on the road near Wcodend. Deceased, leaves eleven children, A'FATAL* EIRE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. A fire occurred 1 at tho Wellesley boarding-house in tho city'this morning. Two people were burned to death. No further details arc available. A GIRL DROWNED. WANGANUI. Jan- 2. Rebecca Irvine, third daughter of Captain Irvine, of Castlcciilf. was drowned on Sunday night. She ana her sister and a young man, when returning from church, went to the breakwater. Tim sister and the young mjur sat down at the, top end of tho breakwater, and deceased, as she had done on many occasions, intimated her intention of going tb the extremity of tho structure. When the sister returned home the house was in darkness, and it was only this morning that the discovery was' made that deceased’s lied had* not been occupied. Her body was discovered on the beach a mile awav, with a bad bruise on the hack of the head. Evidently the deceased slipped Off the footway, aud fell on to the rocks. WOMAN FATALLY BURNED. DUNEDIN, Jan. 1. A woman named Alary Ann F>ith, aged seventy-one, an old age pensioner, was burned to death about 2.30 this morning. She resided with her husband and two other women in Howling Street. When, the fire was discovered the husband is alleged tp have been more or less under the influence of liquor. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Tho house was partly destroyed, and tho brigade found tho woman’s charred remains-behind a bedroom door. The husband is suffering somewhat from shock, but not seriously. DEATH FROM TRAP ACCIDENT, GREYMOUTH, Jan. 3. 8011, the victim of Friday’s trap accident, succumbed this morning.