Accidental Mortality at Bendigo.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 119, 20 February 1872, Page 6

Accidental Mortality at Bendigo.

The present year, so far as it lias gone | has been fertile in shocking occurrences, an ; it is seldom that wo have had to record s many fatal accidents in so brief a perioc 1 We have only at the time of writing arrive | at the 17th day of the month, and lonian ■ back, wo find the following record of disa; : irons occurrences since the commencement < ; the year : —On the last day of December, j hi tie boy named Roberts, m was drowned i | a dam : and on the same clav a lit tie gi; j named Birclmmrc was fatally burnt brane: ; plosion of kerosene, Ou the 2nd Januari i John Snell was crushed by a fall of earth i Cullman and Tacchi's claim; and on the sain I day a miner named William Lake receive such injuries by the*fall of a stone down th shaft as resulted in his death eight days a, ; tenv.ivils. On the sth, Patrick Pender we 1 killed by being run over at Comp. On th , Oth, a 1 id named Doulan was drowned in on j of the dams in the Camp Reserve; and o : the RSth. a lad named Beni was laded by i kick from a marc. Oa the same day. Gharlc fLilhg’mr was drowned in a dam. To con j oleic the chapter of accidents on this day 'Mr John f.Aorrinoa. ilie manager of th lie. tier’s row, was killed bv being j.rerne | !vh; vreu rh-'cige and the side of tiie sh if! On the MAh, Patrick Hennessey eommi ;te I Tirade at Siratlnl cldsavo ; and on the sain j day a sad name 1 i lourlav was drowned at th | head of Bc.-io'iaw’:. On lim J.Ai ii, .Tame j R wen Dean was a.knitLd into th.e uo-splta! jsndering. from sunstroke, .rid (bod on th ! following dav. On the LUii, George A; pi srson, was tar »v.m from Ids horse, on th jCharleston root, and died yesterday. 0 . the loth, ton, George M ury. a lino yonn ; fellow, the sun of a farmer at !H 1 ;ovnt.r ; was x'llc 1 hr a fall of oirth : and at rf e C.i. or-pe, another ere of supposed suustrok i tornuu.Aed f-vtdiy. Our oouveuipoiv.iy sii jcorelv trusts that wy shall not have a co: ; Lunation of those shock in go-, arr im.vs, f.*n loon violent. deaths in eigntoon dews beinr j f-rirful average of ar.hdoii ■’ o •■•talit''. Vt' , echo tern hj ourdialiy.— Be.idljo help:, deni, Tilth Jauuar-.