ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2612, 21 September 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MINER’S TERRIBLE INJURIES

[Ter Press Association.] THAMES, Sept. 20. Thomas Brown, aged 30, was killed instantaneously while working in Kawi bush, Puriri, near Thames. Deceased was assisting to cross-cut a log lying on the face of a hill. When the log was partly cut through a portion broke off, crushing Brown and dragging him with it. His legs ,arm, and back were broken. He leaves a widow and one child. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death, and that no blame was attachable to anyone, was returned.

YOUNG MAN DROWNED

CHRISTCHURCH, Sent. 20. About 12.(30 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Charles Winter, 23 years of age, was drawned in the Upper Waiau river near the ferry. He was crossing the river in a dray, which bv some means icapsized, and Winter was pinned beneath it, and u T as drowned before assistance could reach him. He was employed at the Waiau Hotel. His father resides at St. Albans, in this city.

THE PEA RIFLE AGAIN

DUNEDiN, Sept. 20. Oui Saturday morning, at Southbridge. near Milton, Walter Herbert Thompson, whose people reside at Milton, was killed owing to a pea rifle accident. Thompson, who is a lad of To years, worked for p. Porter, a farmer, and was instructed to kill some fowls. The boy was evidently executing the orders when the fatality occurred Deceased was in the habit of killing fowls with t-ho pea rifle, which was found discharged lying between a buggv and farm implement in the shed, and sixteen yards away the lad was found. It is supposed that the rifle knocked against one of the implements and went off, and that the. lad staggered to where lie finally fell. FARMER FOUND DEAD.

The police have been advised from Owaka that James Morrison, a farmer, was found dead in the bush on Saturdav. A horse and dray, the shafts of which were broken, lay beside him. The horse had bolted, and when the smash came the deceased was thrown out and broke his neck. The body had been in the bush for some days.