ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13420, 18 October 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SOWERBY BRIDGE COLLISION

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright 1 ' • LONDON, October 16. There have been., {opr ..deatlisf in connection with the acSdent at Sowerbv Bridge, where an . electric,, train •;wis derailed and smashed into a liouiw. ' Per Press Association. -y. AU.CICbANP; October i 7. Patrick W T halen, aged 40,. was employed in felling a tree at. TungapungM- A branch dropped on his liead, crushing his skull, and death ensued shortly afterwards. , -

WANGANUT, October 17. Matthew;. ■Connor, a well-knowo .-... .Up River, settler, was drowned yesterday afternoon. He was erbssing the river : . in a earioe. ~ A -strong was running, ajnd''-'tie canoe • capped. The hoily has not yet been recovered.

NAPIER," October 17. An accident which resulted fatally occurred on 'the-..'Napier Harbour Board's dredge. A workman named Michael Henry was sitting on the grab holding a rope, to wliioh was attached a piece of - timber that liad fallen into the hopper when the grab chain' carried away -and the garb' with Henry on it- fell into the-hopper. In . the act. of falling the grab" canted and buried him under the water butK he -was able to icrawl out and was then sent to-., the lios'pital. .It was found on-examination that Henry, was internally_and •that one of .bis * ribs bad been . driven through the lung. He died at the hospital.this morning. , ITOKITIKA, October 17. ■ The Maori ferryman at Waitoto was found drowned in a creek near Waitoto river to-day. jfThe body -is being broughtto tlie Maori .^ttlsment L at Jacob's river for interment. . * - ' -