ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BURIED IN A PALL OF EARTH. (By Telegraph—PressAssociation.) '•• Auckland, July 5. ' During excavating operations at the property of -P. Gleeson, Cleveland Road, Parnell, James Dalrymple, aged , 45, unmarried, was buried in a fall of earth.' ■ He was relieved after two hours' Work, when it was .discovered that the . »hovel with which he had been- working had been driven against his right thigh, fracturing it badly. . It was also eyi-.-dent. that he was suffering from internal-, injuries.. Shiviian. was .removed to tho hospital, 'where an examination- showed .'. there was little hope of his recovery.

GTJMDIGGER'S DEATH. :.-.- Auckland, July 5. Michael Barry, a single man,- a painter and gumdigger, was fouud' dead. in a house at Wade. He was apparently in his usual health last evening. There are no suspicious circumstances..

TRAM ACCIDENT. ""/..' The propensity of a horse (attached to-one of Innis's expresses) to wander free and unfettered caused an accident ia-Willis Street, yesterday. The express bad been drawn up close to the'footpath near the Palace Hotel, and though the wheel was locked the horse dragged the vehicle out on, to the road immediately in. front of a "palace" car, driven. : :by Motorman Minifie. The motorman.rang his bell .vigorously, but the horse'was-evidently used to the sound, and took no notice. The result was that the front' of : the car struck the hub of the front wheel '■ of the express, twisting the vehicle round, and' jerking the,' horse ,on to ; tho footpath. The force; of ■■ the-'collision was'•■■• such that it pushed.the express round' as though it was ion apivol, : and the tail-board-struck Conductor Albert Knows-'ley-harden thelknee'." who was-a'passenger oh the car, rendered first aid,; and then dispatched the injured man to his home, at No. 248 Upper Willis Street. It is understood that; the knee is not fractured, though very bruised. 5 Knowsley is a married man. -The express was'severely damaged,; but. the car escaped without injury.; .-.

KNOCKED/DOWN BY A CAR.

An- elderly labouring man named Harold residing at Roseneath, was-admitted teethe hospital at a late hour last evening suffering from a scalp wound on the, bead caused through 'his being knocked down by a tram car in Courtenay Place.' '/