ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' -\ 'a violent death, jfall from mbstop-of a building. Shortly after" one o'clock yesterday afternoon a fatal aeddent occurred in J'eathefston Stfeet. At the i-e'at , of the- GegeTflitraut Insurance Mr.-'R.iA.t'Wjikelin ia conetruoting'- ,& four-storyi brick , building for Messrs, A.' D. .Kennedy and Co, 1 , wine , and spirit merchants, and. yesterday at elderly marlj'JWilliam liovedale;'fell head'first a dis- , tanco of about 70" feet 'from' the scaffolding of building on to'the flagged pavement beldw.' , 'flu injuries were,or so severe a nature that he Jived for only about five jninutes after his fall. ' , .' At lUflch" time the deceased Was evidently in excellent' health, atld self Its, so-' fiaW 4 frleiid, Mi. f Henry Hill, with whom he had been obattlng about the Teat huSteh i a qtiarj ter of an,, hour after he resumed wofk the ratal fall camo. > Hβ waa fashioning the model of an eigle on tho western face of the building at tho tinle, rfhda suddenly, appearing to Jose bis balance, he uttered a cry end fell. • ■ J His fell ,«&■ Be6n by BeWral people, who rahed to h» aesistance, and two of them, Messrs. Wilani Beavis arid Alfred Cos, asi etofcod by Dr. Grlmer, whd kod been eunvmoned to the epot. carriod the .injured raan> tUto tbe Norwjoh Union Chambers, nk« he Bdon after expired. 'At the timo thai ho was pkifcad ap be *as dflconsoleus, and Dr. Gil- > itiof at Oltee said that thef§ Was no hope for Ws,life. 'In addition, te , severe fnteml wjttftoe, doceaeed had'OHe of" Ma thighs and gdvetal nbs bfdjten, ftiid a portion of his head'crash*! to. m. Euart came'eu the scene *oou. Met tho accident. , 5 Lovedals, 'who was a'married man, about 60 years of,age, hud beoH in New Zealand for some J&vn, His wife is at preseßi on a visit t6 England. I SCOW'SINrtS AT A WHARF. , (fly iTeljgraflh.-Pfcsi Assoolitlun I _, > „ / fluohland, July 2, n^ B ysl lwa fllled aad ,Whk OS the Kauwa/ Wharf early this ftorliing, The da&tarn,and two men took to the rigging, while a man known as "Seolty" staffed to swim ashoro "Sbotty" has not been seen or,he3fd of sihC6, ifid It is feared ne ha,' beea <irowned. The captain and tho other two rein were rescued. The tlarfie of'the frlafl "Scotty." who I 'is ihajight to have been drowned in connection With the dapdtee of tho Scow Flora, id Fredrick Clark.

A FATAL FALL." (fiy ToUsfjph.'-Sitaclttl Corrisstiaaaentj) AUdklantl, July 2., • ' tragic incident marred thfe passage oi tho barque Jessie Craig," ffora Lyttolton to Auckland, whore 'she 'arrixed this taorniflg, aitor what is claimed" tb be a record jpflsbago. When tho Jessie Cra>g wsb off the Eiist'Capo\ about six o'cldob yastoitlay moin"ing, a' youth named ll'intosh, who sighed OH tho snip's articles as «H erdiliary Bca« nifin; ,W4a up aloft lodsenitig the fefo upper t6pead, Ho was standing on the yard to ■perform this Work, and apparently slipped, for he was seen tfl fall, ilk shipmates saw him falling,"and looked on in a«e, for they could do nothing to save him. lie fell on the deck, striking it With the'back of his betid. The height of tho fall was about 55 feet, and it is a fomarknbla fact that the Suing fellow was not killed outright. He y on tho deck, whoro his mates picked him op unconsoious. There tt'ns a natty wound on tho back of his head, the skull' being apparently fractured. tHβ wae jtaken into tho cabin, whore Captain UYquhart attended to his injuries, but his case was 'a hopeless one .from the start, and at, seven o'clock the same, ovpltiuj; lie passed airay without regaining coii&cioilsness. ll'lntosh. who was 19 years 'of a('6, joined the ahip'H months ego, and gave promise of a very successful career on the bp&i His parents reside at Melbourne, a.nd his father, for a nimiuor oi foars, wns a pilot at Port Melbourne. When the Jessie Craig arrived in the gulf this morning Tiri reported that she waa flying her flag at halfraast. Mr, v J, J. Craig went out in i launch find met the vessel in the stream, and made nrr»H£co«its with the cftptiin for »dviec to be wnt tg the relativoe oi tho deM'ttsed, Mr. !Cr»Jts ( is also etrratiffinc for tba interment, , % which will pr»bably take place at PUrewa to-merren , . Thn body is at tho nsergue twtitinc feu inquest. '