ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• I MOTOR "BACK-FIRED."' ' . ' (By Teieeraph.—Press'Association.) ' Wanganui, August 22. Mr. A. H. Lewis, a/well-known local land agent, met with a severe accident yesterday. ' He was starting the engine of his motor-car,, when it 'Tjack-fired," and the handle spinning round, struck his right forearm, breaking it.

SUCCUMBED TO INJURIES. , Wanganui, August 22. '-Selby Carson, who had his. right hand torn off and his' right leg very severely crushed as the result of an accident at Irvine's sawwill, at Turangarere, on Friday,'" died in the Wanganui Hospital tonight.

• ' SEVERELY SCALDED. Dunedin, August. 22. A serious, accident occurred on th« barque Ganymede at. Port Chalmers this afternoon, the victim being a man named William Clements, 'who was severely scalded, owing to a valve in the donkeyengine blowing out. Clements. was scalded by steam from head: to foot. The unfortunate man groped his way to a small aperture and escaped to the deck, but the skin on his face, lop, feet, chest, and arms was'badly scalded. He was removed to the hospital, where he is progressing: as well as can be . expected. Clements belongs to Wellington, where he has a' wife and four children to whom he intended returning this .week.

FOUND DEAD IN BED. i Gore, August 22. ' .'William Leith Ross, a remittance man, following the", occupation::;of„' accountant, was; found (lead in bed this morning. Deceased',\Yas:.f6'rty : six';,yearvof age, and a native of'Aberdeens!iiri..<."rßoss had been drinking "of late, and medical evidence to that effect will' render an inquest unnecessary. : MINER DROWNED.. W.estport,[August 22. A coalminer. named. M.illjyard, who had been missing- for ■ a:'.'lveoki vwas found drowned in the Cojilbrookdnle Creek. Ho leaves a widow in Scotland.