ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SLIPPED BETWEEN THE •: • x MACHINERY. Telegraph.—Press Association.) /' ;/* Auckland, September. 30. A. Norman"Millar, white assisting,-..two; workmen to start a gas engine at;-tho yard-or Messrs. Parkin-./ / : son and Co.,- monumental ma«>ns,' /■:' supped'between • the..;fly-wheel and j the : body. of. the engine 'and -sustained, a blow on ■ tbe ( head which resulted in to death in. • hospital. \ Deceased'/wai, 18 6 ' S aren^s residing at ' A CHILD DROWNED.' : : Ashburton, September 30. ; ,4' sad fatality, occurred here. about- 5 V o clock. afternoon, - .when .the-'/ daughter: of .Arthur Mayor strayed; into. Mill Creek, loot, far from '■ \ •homo, •on the outskirts of: the •. towju : and. was drowned. '■ > ■' . - INQUEST .AT HOSPITAL: " „• B'fCoMiier Olr; W.- R.- Saseldon, ■ is.Al.) held an inquest at tie hosplfel concerning the-death'-.' of .William ; August. Manson, - who died'. in;. the;, hospital, .on Thursday, night aa the result of injuries received at. Alrafci- ■ ? tt , Wednesday. -'. The • evidenco-.7 snowed that tho. deceased had been en- - : ,gaged':log-hauling ;at K Price and Co.'b ■:. • sawmills and it \Vas his duty.,to fix tie iron "dogs" in;the logs, arid connect' the-wire rope,/preparatory "to the logs .being. drawn -out, by the engine. Dur- 1 ■ ing tho • process of hauling the ."logs' .: had to-negotiate a creek. ' One of - t£o - • logsmet withan obstruction./in-,-tJie : .>" * creek, necessitating full pressure being / ; P u .t : on. and this; resulted -in one of - the' • •''dogs giving.; way. '. The;, rope:: flying -S;; struck -Manso'n. on -the thigh; ' in- / - flicting a compound fracture and alsothrow Mm on the ground causing a : fraoturo'.'of the base ofthe. skull. A verdict of accidental. death; was r&- . turned. .