ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
BOY DROWNED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 19. Mr Cornelius Driscoll, a farmer, coming into Te A rob a gave his two little children a ride part of the way and sent them back on foot. The children stopped to play on the bridge and the boy aged five fell in the water and was drowned. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. INVERCARGILL. May 19. # Three men, named William Fyfe, John Pratt and John Henderson, were walking along the railway from the Bluff to Ocean Beach, when they were overtaken by a special train, all being thrown into the sea. F-yfe's skull was badly fractured, and both his legs -ivevc smashed. He died an hour afterwards. Pratt sustained a broken leg, and Henderson escaped with bruises. Fyfe was a wool classer, and leaves a wife and large family at Kakanui. A severe gale was blowing at the time. All the men were sober.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13908, 20 May 1909, Page 6
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