ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2624, 5 October 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BOATING DISASTER. IPuk Pkkss Association.! AUCKLAND, Oct. 3. Matthew Ramsay Mclntyre, aged 21, a single man, a cabinetmaker by trade, was drowned on Sunday by the capsizing of a small launch off Rangit-oto. McIntyre and four others were fishing a mile off the shore. Mclntyre slipped and fell overboard. The efforts to rescue hini by the other occupants of the launch capsized her, and all were precipitated into the water. They clung to the launch till she sank, and then started to swim ashore. Maoris put off in a boat from the shore and rescued all the men, but Mclntyre was unconscious and never recovered. Me Intyre was a sergeant in No. 3 Garrison Artillery, and the best gun layer in the company. POISONED BY PINEAPPLE. Medical evidence in regard to the death of an eight-year-old girl, daughter 0 f Fredk. W. Lees, was to the effect that death was caused by an irritant, poison Deceased ate a lot of preserved pineapple. Two other children .ate smaller quantities. All were very ill. Two recovered. The fourth child, who did not eat the pineapple, was not id. The inquest was adjourned to receive the bacteriologist’s report. Dr Sweet said that many people thought they were suffering from ptomaine poisoning when it was really bacterial poisoningTAILOR SHOT DEAD. James Reid. „Ford, by occupation a tailor, while shooting with another man from Waipu, was killed bv the accidental discharge of a gun. Death was almost instantaneous. MAN RUN OVER BY A TRAIN. DUNEDIN, October 4. A single man named David Mari', aged about 50 years, was the victim of a. serious accident on the railway at Sawyer’s Bay to-night. Marr, who lives at Port Chalmers, was proceeding home, and as the train started irom Sawyer’s Bay station he either attempted to step off the carriage platform or fell off, with the result that lie was run over, both thighs being badly crushed. ' He was immediately taken to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate both logs above the knee.