Yesterday's Fatal Accident.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 392, 24 October 1883, Page 2

Yesterday's Fatal Accident.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. Samuel Bray, who was one, of the mates of the unfortunate man, James Smith, whose death was reported yesterday, . infprms us.-, fchat he, was catting a heavy. tree4own,' and. that Smith was some distanoe away ont« ting down another tree. A -tall pine, half dry and half green, was between them. Bray called out; to his mate, " Look out Jimmy, you had better come back, my tree is going," and Smith then stepped back a yard and after lodking said, " Otyit can't come near me." Bray called out to him again just as the tree was falling, and told him to leave, but the unfortunate man merely, stepped back a yard or so from his tree, and stood. Meantime, the felljng tree 'struck the half-dead pine, anS'the two fell over with arußu,.the pine falling at right angles to the one which struck it. The, dead pine-wood struck the unfortunate man Smith, arid only went about four feet past him. He was struck fairly on the head, and knocked down; Bray says that even when the. tree was, fajlifig on tp him he must'haVe had plenty 6|time to get out of the road; <ne ground being open, and every facility for 'movingaway ashort distance rapidly. In fact, the whole of the circumstances show to - his mind that the man's time had. come, as he could have escaped so easily. Mr Macarthur, coroner, held^n inquest this afternoon/ but nothing bieWi was; elipited, and a verdict; 6| accidental death wag T&tRV aw* " ' "