ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 682, 6 December 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ ' SEVERELY SCALDED. On Saturday morning, a man natiwd W. Johnson, employed at the Gear Company's manure works, Petone, mot with a painful ' iccident. Ho was mixing boiling water with cold, whon the hose through which the boihiSg water was running flow out of his hand and he was severely scalded. After receiving medical attention, ho was removed to his home. A RAILWAY FATALITY. , At about 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, an accident, which-was attended by fatal con- ' sequences, occurred at Petone. As the 7.40 a.m. train from Wellington was drawing into the .station, an old age pensioner named Ednin Cox ondoavoured to cross the lino just by the Grand National Hotel. As the ongmo drew near to the old man tho driver saw tho danger, and blow the locomotive's whistle four ~ time?, at the same time applyiug the brakes. / 'i'ho train was pulled up quickly, but not before the; old man had been knocked oi? tho , line by the engine. Cox was Ukon to the railway station, and attended to by Dr. Hardang, who ordered his romoval to the hospital. The injuries received, however; were so eenous I that tho old man died in tho hospital at IL3O α-m Ibe deceased, who residecf at Lower Hntt, loaves a widow and family. ,Dr M'Arthur, district coroner, will hoW an inquest liis afternoon at tho hospital, i -i INJURED WHILE DIVING. c A aTI . 63 J. 0 ™?" 1 ' Mitchinsort, whose parents reside in Hiropt Street, Ncivtown, was bathing at Paromata yesterday morning, and, while diving into atot 4ft. of water, struck tho bottom, blight l fracture of the spinal column resulted, and the young man was admitted to i tho hospital last evening, his limbs aad body I being paralysed. J NARROW , ESCAPE FROM DEATH. (By TelCßraph-Press Association I Ashburton, December 4. A carrier named Robert Jennings, nhi>n loadIng flour at Messrs. Robertson and Co.'s mill yesterday, accidentally ran shis head against a ri-vohing pulley, which rendered him partially unconscious and inflicted ugly facial wounds. Those convorsant with machinery , marvel that Jennings'was not killed outiight. A GIRL'S D4ATH. _, , , ' Hamilton, December 4. Kate Lsnihan, .ftgod sufcen ynars, died in the District Hosmtnrearly this moining-it is supposed through eating match-heads. Ah inquest will bo held. A CniLD DROWNED. „ , , . Walroa, December 4. The pohco received information this morning , that a'girl named Silk, four yoari of aw, a half-caste, wai drowned in the Waiau Rher laM; Tuesday. As the Native? kept the muHtr quiet so long, a doctor is being sent out with the police, and an inquest ,will bo held.