Accidents and Fatalities

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1309, 25 April 1905, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities

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Mm Bur&ls a Bitioil Vessel

Dy Telegraph.—Proms Awoafatlon. Wklwhoton. this day. A cook named Hpunoer, a wMowur, about CO yourti oi ngo, wlio was accompanying tho Aohburst vulutuorra to Mnßtertoti to tabs part in tbo JUaator movemontfl, was killed at Mafltciton, Ho wa* climbing on to tho voluntoirs' truck, whou ho slipped and toll under tho wbeola, ono passiug ovor bin chest and hoad. He wnts removed to the hospital, whoro ha died. At tha iii(p;ent, a verdict of accidental deoth wai roturncd.

On S&iurday Jjouib Alfun McLean, of Napier, an guard on tho NapierWellington mail train, burst a blood vos«h) wbanihetniU was bst.tefn Huknaui and Eketahunaj and died buforo reaching Eketabuna.

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By Telegraph—Press Association, .Atjckxand, this day.

Joseph Gvry, a carpenter, residing a* Mount Roskill, tripped over a stump whilß shooting, and both b;irro!s exploded. The conteuts of one were discharged into Grey'a ietf. He was mken io ths* hospitjl, FofsikHer Dies on the Field Domedin, this day. The footbaU match at P«lmers f .on South was brought to a closa by & tragic occarronea, A team from the Album Club, Gore, journeyed to Palmrrston to play, and being a man short, one Lindsay, a son of ibe ex-Inspector of Factories here, but now in Wellington, .joined in. The parae bad only started a fow minutes when Lindsay was observed to fali. First, aid was administered, but wa» not successful in restoring animation. Dr. Begley, whowaasumiconed, lound that life was extinct.