ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' explosion op gelignite; ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED. ■ (HI TELEGEAriI— I'UESS ASSOCIATION.) R6oSton, March 7. ■ A young man, Frank Nankervis, a nativ« of Long Gully, Bcndigo, was killed at Big River by an oxplosion of a gelignite charge when cleaning up the bottom of a drive. An inquest was hold yesterday. It appeared that a portion of an unoxploded charge left, may be several shifts previously, must iiavo been touched by him, killing him and injuring his mato.

BOY DROWNED IN THE SURF.

Napier, March 7. A boy of eight years, named Maurico Edward Hughes, was drowned iu tho surf near tho southern end of Marino Parade ou Saturday aftenioon. There was a heavy sea, and tho boy was caught by tho backwash. At tho inquest, Mr. E. M'Carthy, S.M., recorded a verdict of accidentally drowned, adding the following riders: —"That tho Coroner desires to oall the attention of tho proper authorities to the uselessnoss of tho buoys at present provided for life-saving pur. poses. In lieu of tho buoys there should bo provided life-saving bolts, with at least 200 yards of suitable ropo attached thereto. As a further rider tho Coroner desires to direct public attention to tho fact that a view of tho body disclosod tho fact that a man, his wife, and threo children lived in a cno-roomcd outbouso, not _ moro than 10 feet long by 3 feet wide, which was without ventilation of any kind. Tho body of deceased was laid oa a tablo alongsido a sleeping child."

PAINFUL ACCIDENT AT MARTON.

. ~ „ , Marton, March 7. A middle-aged man named M'Gonaglo met with a serious accident at Marton Junction railway station last evening. It appears that ho was removing luggago from tho van, when an engmo jarred tho train, causing him te fall. A wheel went over his arm, practically severing it. He also received injurios on tho head and his foot was badly bruised. Ho was taken to Palmerston Hospital,

A GOOD SWIMMER DROWNED

. , . . Dunodin, March 7. A drowning accident occurred at Tomahawk .yesterday tho victim being Alexander Maxwell, aged 23 years, son of Mr. Homy MaxRegistrar of Electors. Deceosod nnd Jus brother, aged 21 y-earsj went for a bathe, and almost immediately afterwards deceased was seen a considerable distance out in. tho sarf. Ho suddenly disappeared, and was scon 110 more. Deceased was a good swimmer, Tho body has not been recovered.

BQY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. Tho pea riflo was in evidonco again yesterday, when a youth named Von Kyscuberg, 10 years of ago, residing in Tinakori Rond, n i e ' i W j a ser ' ous . accident. It appears that tho lad was handling a loaded riile, when it went oft, the bullet entering his throat and cutting the windpipe. Tile lad's condition was considered serious at a lato hour last night He was too weak to allow of the bullet being extracted. It is stated that tho boy's father is also ail iumato of tho hospital at present.

A FALL ON THE I'AVEMKNT. A coal lumper named Thos. liickcy, residing at Jones s boardiughouse, Courtonay Ilacc, was admitted to the hospital oil Saturday ovening suffering from a sovero scalp wound on tho back of tho hoad, tho rosuit of a fall on tho pavement. DROWNED IN A WATER HOLE. Word was received yesterday afternoon in Carterton of a drowning accident that occurred at Rullitono's Admiral Sawmills, near Gladstone, whero an employee named Gcorgo Burnett was drowned while taking tho horser to bathe in a deep hole two and a half chains irony tho mill. - No particulars are to hand, and it is not known whether deceased fell or was thrown from his horse. Burnett, who was well known in tho Forty-mile Bush district, Vas a son of Mrs. Burnett, of Belvedere. Ho was 30 years of ago, and leaves a widow aud two young children,