ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3168, 14 March 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

OHAKUXE RAILWAY FATALITY. LPER PRESS ASSOCIATIONS r- ATJOKLANR- Miiroli 13. Farther particulars of the train accident at Ohakune show the. victim to have been Vera Dellow, aged 26, wliose parents reside at Mount Eden. Slie went out on the platfoim of the next carriage, saw a dark object fall alongside the carriage. He bounded forward and got possession of the body, after the wheels of one carriage had passed over it. Death must have been instantaneous. Constable Skinner was struck bn the back of the bead by a moving carriage, but escaped serious injury. A passenger states that the station was practically in darkness when the train arrived, but was fully lighted ten minutes after the fatality. DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. HA WEE A, March 13. Alexander Wan, aged 62 a . retired settler, died suddenly m his sleep early this morning from heart failure. COACH DRIVER INJURED. Mcssop, a coach driver, was tin own from a four-horse team waggon on Dawson Falls mountain track on Friday evening, receiving serious injuries to his head and, face. He was rendered unconscious, and remained in the open all night. ' He was taken to the hospital, suffering from concussion of the brain. WORRIED OVER BUSINESS. TIMAEU, March 13. At an inquest on Charles Thomas v..en:ents, whose body was found on the rocks yesterday morning, -an open verdict was returned. ' The evidence showed that deceased had been worried over business matters quite unnecessarily.