ACCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14284, 26 August 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

<> TRAIN-MOTOR COLLISION. l'Tvbs Atuooiatiou-Bv Tclegraph-C'upvright NEW YORK. August'iM. A motor-ear collided with a train at i a level crossing at Long Island. Three persons were killed and three seriously injured. A WOMAN'S SUICIDE. Per Press Association. CHRIS'['CHURCH.- Aug. -J5. Juanita Aioxandrina Burn, a married woman o'2 years of age. committed suicide last night by jumping off the end of the pier at New Brighton. The body was found this morning. She had partly undressed, leaving articles of cl'.thing on the pier and with them a note To her sister, saying, ""I could not stand these voices in my ears any longer, an-.! I am going on the. long journey." She had been in indifferent health lately. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Burn no fresh facts were disclosed, and a verdict was returned that dec*:3sed was found drowned but there was no ; evidence to show how tho body got into i the water. A NASTY CUT. i During the progress of building oper- ; ations in Cain's Terrace yesterday , morning nt the C.F.C.A's. machinery store. a painful accident occurred, ne-ces-sitatinii the removal of one man to . a doctor. He was carrying sheets of iron alone the first floor, partially com- ' pleted. when he mi-pod his footing. ; slipping between the joists to the ; •ironnd 'bar with the iron in his arms. On landing tb" <dge of one of the ■ «heet- was j:i>vm< d in against his left ; arm. cutt'iisr it to the bone in a dan- j gerous manner. He was immediately driven to Dr Fnwin's, and 18 stitches ' had to be put in the wound, I