ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 7 February 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRAIN EXAMINER SERIOUSLY INJURED.

rpjjK Peess Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 5. A train examiner named 4 romont, married, formerly of Wanganui, was curiously injured at th© station this morning. He was stooping to examine a truck, when a van, being shunted, ran over him, cutting lus thigh ► very severely. He was removed to the hospital m a serious condition.

SUFFOCATED BY FOUL AIR. TIMARU, Feb. 5. Charles Ernest Riddle, proprietor of the Alburv coal mine, entered the mine at about "4 o’clock this morning to make preparations for the day s work, and was discovered by some of the miners about 8 o’clock, unconscious. Dr. Cook, of Fairlie, was telephoned for, and efforts to restore animation made without success. Oil the doctor’s arrival lie pronounced life extinct, and said that Riddle had-' been suffocated by the foul,air in the mine.

1 DEATH FROM BURNS. ~OAMARU, Feb. 6. A wooden house was partly destroyed by fire on Saturday while undergoing repairs. The proprietor, W. CBaudinet, had put a pot of tar on the fire, went outside, and shortly afterwards found the room in flames. He rushed back into the building, and made an effort to extinguish the flames, and in doing so was badly burned about the hands and face. He /was .conveyed to his home, but died from shock shortly afterwards. The deceased was 73 years of age.