ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12870, 4 January 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

THE RAILWAY FATALITY. Further parijeojaj-s regarding the fatality on the railway near Studholme on Tae*day night, reported in yesterday's issue, show tii a i the victim of the Accident was a single woman about 35 or 40 ywins «f age. named Janet Robertson, who had been. in business in Temuka for iromd year* aw a milliner and di«sKmaker. She had a. sister in Oatcara. and had been to visit her daring the holiday*, -and was returning to Temuka. fcv Tuesday .night's train. She ' was observed to look 31 when she joined the train, ami also snbse-juently, new WDlowbridgc she totik off her hat and cloak: -and went outside to tbe carriag* platform, '■ where she was wen by some of those im : the car through the glaxed door, leaning on i the guard rail. A passenger remarked! i that sh* had been -outside a. good while, and he was about to go out to advise her to oomc in. when a sharp bump shook the carriage, the woman had disappeared, and it was at once concluded that tie had fallen off and been run over. Before Una guard could be communicated with andj the train pulled op, the train wa.s near to Stadholnse, and the Waimate branch' engine was *ent down the line So look focr the missing woman. Her body was found on the line dead and considerably mangled, and beside it the body of a welfdevcJoped male child. The remains were removed to the Studho'mc Junction Hotel, and Major Keddell, Con*er for Waimate district, was tcßnnanjcatfd with. Dr Barclay made a port juentm examination of the bodies yesterday. ;»i:d an inquest wilJ be held by Major Kc-ddett to-day. Our Temuka correspondent writes that the «ad death of Miss Robertson caused quite a shock in Temuka. wh«* she was well [ known and much respected. Last night"*; " Oaamam Mail" saywr; [ General sympathy will be felt in town for the relations. for [ Miss Robertson was well known and! i gr*ai3y- respected here, and wijws a. tastier ' of Mrs Harry Rioc, at <*ne *ime resident lin Oamaru but now of Wangaanu. i Old ' residents of Oamaru will call to mind the fact that the another of jhe deceased met with ai tragic end 'fifteen or sixteen years ago. She walked out of he:- bouse early <ooe summer morning i;nd wa* never sean again. However, part of an jutu and portions «T her dress were, ne brfieve. subsequently found on the bank of the Waitald river, A thirteen-year-old son of Mr Ma»oB r of Orari, spending a holiday near Temul*, had the misfortune io fall from a tree a»4 break liw arm. 'TS* awfferer wae »fteßd»i to by Dr Hayes; -ft>lM»'*et the limb. An aged Maori stoned Bopa, at Ajvvwith'*, aasty accident reoeßJijy... The native.-who is blind in one'ere. -wa*, while chopping wool struck toT&rVHJrtK' " •iptc with i>nch force as 1x» render, him totally blind. Since, he has boon" attended" by two doctors, and can now rccogniße a, light passed dose t.f. his face, but tbeiw appears little chance of his regaining the use of his <iri«' capable -eye. Some youths having ;i snrint on the Temuka. cycle track yesterday met, with n. mishap which will d->ubtW leuth tbem th.it scorching is cxpCßhire. Thniush a: collision ivrn mnchinw w«* badly <i;i!maged and fine ridtr is minus a, couple "f tooth and some patches «>f sktn.