ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 735, 7 February 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

POT OF TAR TAKES FIRE. FATAL RESULT. - . (By ToleirraDh:—Ffcaa. Association.)- • Oamaru, ' February 6. ■■■ - A -wooden housewas > partly '. 'destroyed by. nre: on 1 Saturday-'*while'"undereoißC repairs. The proprietor, W; C. Baudinct, .had, put- a .pot of? tar.;oui the fire, and "I?® ' outside. He shortly; afterwards: found ; tho. 1 room' inflame's;- .He" 'rushed back' into thebuilding . and fflfcdo an : elfort to. extinguish, the ■ flames, and/ 'ih' doing so, was. badly burnt about- the hands and face,.- He was 'conveyed'to his home, but. died, from shook shortly afterwards. .. Deceased wrv; 73 years of ago. 71:

teain examiner injured. " New Plymouth, February 5. A. .train -.examiner.'...named • Fromont, married,. [formerly..of/-..Wan^antii,was seriously ..injured ..at the; .station . ;thia morning. .He j was stooping to examine \ truck, when a van which was being shunted ran over; him," cutting .his thigh very,,severely. - .He .was removed to the hospital m a eenous condition.

fflmOWNEa SUFFOCATED. 1 .. _ , „ Timaru, February 5. • j it Charles Ernest - Riddle, proprietor of the. AlbtiTy. i coal-mind, entered • the mine -about font o'clook - this morning to, -make preparations for the day's work, and Was disoovered-by some of the miners about -eight o olookuncon6oioUs,- -Dr, Cook, or Fairlie, • was- teleph6ned for, efforts- to' restore , ianimation ' were made without sucoess. On the - doctor's arrival, he pronounced life to be extinct. that Riddle had been, suffocated by.the? foul, air in' .tho .mine.' ' '

;■PAINTED WHILE- BATHING. Whilst bathing off : the'Petone boach oil a married woman named iilizabem Mums, - suddenly collapsed,' .tod.-had it not.been; for tho : presence of xv happened to -bo passing- at the tinle, the mishap would have-ended seriously. The lady..who i waa rescued in' a fainting condition, was attended-- by Dr. Ross,, who ordered h&r removal-to' iher home in Aurora Street. • Latest in- * quinea show that Mrs. MuUid i&'progressing favourably, .' v; v ;•? .>. . •,< lt . CAUGHT IN . MACHINE BELT. ■ ■ > A yomir man named Fred • ■ Thompson, J?SSea, ear s of : engineer, residing at' 89. Coromandel .Sheet, and "employed at Luke and Co.'s foundry.' met with'" -"aserious ':' Accident on''Saturday; morning. During the course'of his'work, the young man" got caught; in ' one of ■, the tielts," and ,was: taken round. the . shaft He Waa severely : crushed : 'aljout,' the ■ head - and • Chest, and had one of his feet -injured. When; admitted to tho hospital he was onConscious, bat a little later ho regained his senses. On inquiry at tho hospital last night, the) young man i was making .yery.v satisfactory progress:.

A TRAM ACCIDENT. • ■ Whilst .-running along Riddlford Street at about 9.30 on Saturday- night, th.© five-year-old son of .a wharf labourer named- Wm. Stevenson, of Pioton Avenue, got away fromits faoth'ef,; and was knooked down by a - tramcar. The child reoeived ■ a - sovero out over the tight temple and a bruise on' the left side of the forehead. After being attended ;to .at Castle'schemist, shop,/ the child was removed to its. home.-