ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 212, 1 June 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD FATALLY BUKNED. According to a report received by ■ th< Police, a ohild namedAlifce. Turner,-3} year: / , of .ago, daughter of Mr. Jas..Turrier, an em ployee ;of tho Riverside . Dairy . Co.; Geai Island, Petone, was so severely burriet through her'clothing catching, fire yesterdaj morning', that she diedin/the evening. Ii appears that. tho child . was warming '-'hei hands .in "front, of, the''kitchon ;fire:at_ about 7 o'clock in the morning, when her piriafor< caught on ; fire.' .The-child's.-sistdr, aDOut lc , years;of ; 'a'ge, _noticed tß<e little 'one's, plight! ■ - and; acting .with great promptitude, wrapped a sack, round [the .littlo girl and .succeeded : in. extinguisihingsth'e flames.Subsequently the elder girl went for her father,. who' was milking some cows. on Gear Island at'the . time the Occident ■ occurred;. Dr. Hector was called in, and arrived about 1 p.m. He attended'the'child, but at about 6 o'clock'yesterday. OTening r she ; collapsed, and died. .An inquest/. held to-day by Dr. A. ■ M'Arthur, the coroner. . A carter named Peter T. Lilly, residing , at t; Quin Street, and employed by Messrs. Munt, Cottrell and l . Co., met'with an accident in Jorrois. Quay at 10.40 on Saturday morning. Lilly'was driving a waggon, laden . with coal.when the wheel of'the ;cart got in a rut and jolted the driver off, his seat;on to tho road. Beforo he could regain, his -feet one of the passed' over his right forearm,' which' was severely crushed, i .It is also ,believed that; the bone is fractured: ■ After. :beirig attended to by Dr. Henry, tho man was removed to his home." He will bo unable: to., work forabout .-three months.

A.-Hill, of the Wellington Football Club' -• Junior team, had, his noso'broken on Satui day, during .tlio course of the Wellington , tonoko game. . ' ' ANOTHER DEATH UNDER ■ CHLOROFORM. V 0»T TELEOBAPiI—WIMR ASSOCIATION.? Dunedin, May 30. Poter Paxton, a tram conductor,' aged 28 ' 3icd at tho hospital yestorday whilo unde' the influence'of' an anaesthetic,'preparatory to undergoing anr operation. > At the inquea' Dr. ; Ritchio . said > he, administered' to th< 'a, mikturo of .chloroform and' ether ■ ; v after'examining him and • finding: him fit foi .. thoi aiaesthotic, which was necessary for thi • BoriousVoperatipn' he 'had to undergo.' De ceased :took: tho anaesthetic, well, i but sud ■ . n donly became faint, V 'dying. shortly:, after- . wards. ' In the'doctor's' opinion death "was duo. to h'cart.failure,, following soptic absort> . tion, accelerated! by . the anaesthetic. ■ Drs. Falconer and Ritchie agreed as 'tc tho,cause of death, and also stated that ar ' Operation was absolutely 'necessary.- ' ''The ;• ■.i jury- returned a verdict in" accordance with ■: the medical testimony;. adding that no. blame was? attachable to' anyone.' ' " ' ■ ' ; FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT < ' : ' , Diiriedin, May '31. . .A young man, supposed to be Colin Morris, . M Port Chalmers, met ' with , a fatal, acci- .- ■ dent-; onthe • railway -last • night,' his'dead body being found alongside the line about v . half a niile' ?outh of Dunedin Station. The • ■ right foot-from the instep Crushed, the skull injured, arid the. right wrist broken, - , besides minor injuries. In his'pocliot was found a card, addressed, '' Colin Morris, c.o.r'Mararoa, Lyttelton,"'. and posted-at ■,' P° r ,? Chalmers. , Deceased was apparently about.lß-or'2o years of-age. It ( is surmised .that ho got on the.Mosgiel train instead of • .. the Port Chalmers train,'. and jumped off v\.when ho noticed-the' mistake. .' ' . BABY DROWNED IN A CREEK. ! V . Nelson, May. 30. An infant a year and . eight months bid, . ' named Herbert Drummond, a son of Ernest' . Drummond, Riwaka; was found drowned yes-; creek near farmstead. f KILLED BY A FALL OF ROCK. . ■ ' Reef ton, May 31. : A young'man named Godwin was>killed in • tho Progress Mine on Saturday.- Death ccp—red fV"'n the fall of a : greasy head of rock after a shot. . . ..; . FOUND DEAD'. ; Reoftoh, May 31. An old-age pensioner named Glenn has been found dead. He lived alone. A postmortem examination disclosed the, rupture of / a blood-vessel. An inquest was held to-day, when, a verdict* of death from natural causes was returned. - . . .. . ■ : ' ■ v ' Dunedin, May 31. On May. 8 a man _ named Stirling was admitted to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition. ;He lay in the same state-until last night, -when ho died.