CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1927, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

. SYDNEY MOTOR ACCIDENT. AUCKLAN DER SKIffOI'SLY INJURED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyricht. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 8, 8.1:] p.m.) I SYDNEY. April 8. | Air Neach, si-visitor from Auckland, : was knocked down by a motor car in j the city, and taken to the hospital, I suli'ermg from severe head injuries. FATAL FALL. By Telegraph—Press Association. AVELLINGTON, April 8. As a result of a skylight on which she stepped giviug way. Airs Martha Cronin, (aged JO), foli through into the kitchen of Barrett's Hotel shortly before noon to-day, and was killed instantly. BUS BUTTS TRAIN. By Talegrjinh—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 8. An employee of the General Omnibus Company, Edward Thomas Gibson, had a terrifying experience at It) o'clock last night at the New Lynn railway crossing. Seeing a passenger train a few feet, ahead he applied the brakes, but hit the engine amidships. Gibson fell from the. driver’s seat, and on to the bus, but his sole passenger, Air T. R. George, seized him by the : legs, and prevented him from falling I under the wheels of tho train. Fortun- : ately, the train was pulling up preparatory to settling down passengers. The j bonnet and engine of the bus were jdamaged, but not extensively. TRAIN DERAILED. By Telegraph—r-Presa Aa&oci&tVoi . DUNEDIN, April 8. was passing Green island at I.U'J this morning, the axle of a waggon broke, causing the derailment of eleven trucks laden with coal and wood. A breakdown train arrived an hour later. Some of the waggons were badly damaged and their contents scattered all over the track. No one was injured. MOTOR COLLISION. By Telegraph—Press Association. HAAnLTON, April 8. W, Brookes sustained a broken leg and injuries to an arm in a collision, at Okautia, near Matamata, between his motor cycle and a motor lorry. DEATH FROM INJURIES. By Telegraph—Press Association. : HAAIILTON, April 8. Alfred Little (J2), married, with live children, succumbed last night to injuries received through being run over by a drill, when the horses he was working at AVaitetuna, got out of control. DEATH FROAI BURNS. By Telegraph—Press Association. HAMILTON, April 8. Tutu Kingi died at AVaikato Hospital this morning through burns sustained in : an explosion of tar from a boiler at Butaruru earlier in the week