ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
BOY THROWN FROM A HORSE. Per Press Association. NAPIER, April 24. A serions accident occurred on the Taradale road this afternoon. A racehorse which was being taken home from the races at Napier Park by a lad named O'Connor, j took fright and bolted, throwing the lad against a telegraph pole. The boy was picked up and taken to the hospital, where he was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. The injury is not expected to prove serious, though the lad is still unconscious. TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. GREYHOUTH, April 24. There was a double drowning fatality this afternoon. Two children named Kroenings, one aged eight, the other three years, were playing on the railway bridge near the hospital, and appear to have fallen off into the water below. The youngest child was picked up floating on the water, but a wound on its head showed thall the child had struck the culvert and been killed. The other child disappeared, but the body was recovered by dragging. The father of the children is employee! on* the steamer Petone, and only a short time ago lost a daughter by consumption. The children had wandered away unknown to their mother.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3551, 25 April 1901, Page 3
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203ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3551, 25 April 1901, Page 3
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