ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 810, 6 May 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RUN OVER BY A TRAMCAR. SHOULD EVERY CAR CARET A . JACK? (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, May 5. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of a child/ named Frederick Hastings Crookall, three years old, who was run over by a tramcar yesterday. ' One witness stated that tlicro was no jack on the car, and fifteen minutes elapsed before one could bo ■ procured. Witness thought every car should carry a jack. He did not suggest that the child could have been saved if jacks, to raise the car, had been procurable earlier, but a case might occur where life' might be saved if a jack were carried on the car. A juryman .asked what was the objection to each car carrying jacks. The foreman said it was apparently a matter of expense. Mr. Reed, who appeared for the Tramiray Company, understood that in no place were jacks carried on cars. There was no room for a jack, and a special locker would have to bo provided on each

car. A juryman: Would it not be better to carry a passenger less and make room for a jack? Mr. Seed: There are eome 700 cars in Sydney, and I understand not one of them carries a jack. A juryman: More shame to acknowledge

A unanimous verdict of accidental death was returned, and the jury added a rider to the effect that the City Coun.cil should be requested a to insist that each car carry two jacks.

CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE. (Br Teleeraph.—Preea Asaoclitlon.l ' Eltham, May 5. Intimation was Teceived this afternoon of a serious accident at Omoana. Details ere meagre, but it seems that 'Bab/ Wilson was covered by a landslide, and in an endeavour to effect a rescue two other men named Morris and Collins were more or less seriously injured. Dr. Har'rison hae gone out to the scene of tho accident, but has not yet returned. FATAL RESULT OP KICK. Palmerston North, May 5. The six-year-old son of Mr. Hull, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Bulls, who was.kicked on tho head by a horse on Sunday, died in tho hospital.

ENGINE-DRIVER INJURED. . Christchurch, May 5. An engine-driver named Thomas Pringle, while driving a goods train on the Booth line to-day, met with a serious accident. His head came in contact with on overhead bridge at Hornby. He had three ribs broken and sustained ooncusBon of the brain. DYNAMITE CAP EXPLODES. ■ Auckland, May 5. At Hunua to-day a youth named Edward Hoseorman,' 16 years of age, was iampering with a dynamite cap, when it exploded, shattering his loit hand. ' FELL OFF THE WHAEF. A fireman named Luis M'Ginn fell mto the water whilst going along'the wharf at midday yesterday. The man was got eshore'little the woreo for his immersion.