ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. DISTRESSING FATALITY. . / -.(By Teiegrapli.—Speclar Correspondent.),.: ■ :.» Carterton, December 19. ' ; i: _Mr. Hugh Wilson', proprietor of the ' Wairarapa v , Bacon Factory; had •;his-righti • arm.:.severed■ this .afternoon, r ... an hour .latei.' It appears -that Tvhen.tha distressing'■ event happened, : Mr. ■ Wilson ; ; i ; :.'.yras .engaged inv adjusting: belting 'iyork- • ,;,v" -"H6 tte grinding stohe, when it. taught his arm . and iniiicted injury as. stated. Deceased'was,about 55.years of age ; 'and leaves a. widow and family. ; He was a member .of-, the. School Committee, and a Borough ; Councillor. He came, to; the dis- . . Wet some years ago as • managed for-, the Wairarapa Bacon Company, Ltd./"and ; !>•••.' 'subsequently leased . the 'plant,'; arid, iii ; : July last, purchased it. -. M - XrV... „ ' DROWNED AT A FORD • • (By TelcEraph.—Press Association.) ~ ' ;V..' v Nelson," December 19: : i-. 'An engine'driver. named.Ddniinech John .. .. V: ' Lee;"a yqunc':mau, married, and leaving v widow ana child,was drowned'in the a iofere" River,.-Collingwood,. last : night, while .nttempting>to.;cr'oss. the-ford, on ■' horseback. • He.had entered the water too. high .up; was recovered, but' i - I .resuscitation failed. , -Deceased -formerly ; ' drove-a' locft'mbtive". from'.':'the . ,Puponga' mine , to the wharfi . Latterly lie had 'been employed'at' Teirakohe. An-inquest is' being held. "i ;■

A TREACHEROUS LiKE. Dunedln, December 19. . John Edwin Dick, aged seventeen, belonging to Dunedin; while bathing ,in"a * lake at »Queenstown ;.this morfiinffiv.was ;A. dtowned. The' body has : been, recovered. Deceased 'could, not sfrim. 1 He' used 'air floatets,. but; these; gave out.. .'His 1 parents N. &nd-three' sisters had taten a house for. . ..the holidays.' ■Deceased'.lfas'. the only- boy ■,/if the family of.,ten. ■ . THE FATALITY ON S.S. PUKAKI; . -. Timaru, December 19. * ■ Anj abl?.: seaman named. Christopher ■ Hfcler .was, killed,'ori Saturday, evening, i . whileiworking in the'hflld.of .the, steamer :' : Eukaki.;/'A number of cases .and'sackk been 'piled: in; the hold, .-and.'about 7 o'cloik the. lot came" 3o\vn heavily; - , .;A -loc%l 'ina>i nameS Olßxisni.TCasspinioSio'd yunderneath , the bags," l and his : mates promptly rescued him, when it was found '• ..that he. had sustained a broken ankle. No ~one suspected that a-etill gravlrt/acci- . dent, had-'bccurred,' but; nearly.- a'inhour afterwards,■ when 1 some fallen bags were . bo'dyr.was discovered lying'across. ■ a case. It was that of a seaman named Hester, who had beta'employed ill 'sorting out the ci\ses.; Bis' head, it is thought, wife -knocked 'agamst a;case,..for,oyer his ■•. left' eye .was a' wound?- from ■ which blood , unpn. isovviii!;. An.'inqhest'was opened, ' ° n -j ff 1 ' I '' Harris;;' deceased's messmate, ■ said; that ' Hesler ' was a - native 'of London, ■'• age, : "rod- hid a sister in ■ i i • V 'He - had ; . Been .'on' the'-.Pu* •v. k »*> i '»t/-Mout:-thi^-S'm6nfts.-':The '"in'-' ■ <iyest > ,was;,thenC.a,Sjbiirne(li'''>- v •

• SERIOUS STREET ACCIDENT, " MAN SUCCUMBS. '. ■ .Christchurch, December 19. -'••'•''mMr man named mUiam Campbell, whose wife is residing in Scotland, and-who-whs known, to have ■. friends. ;mAuckland, "wis' admitted to . iiospital suffering' from very serious injuries, and subsequently succumbed. . Campbell. wis • run ;■ over- "by a dray . : loaded with :gravel, a'nd his v spin<S broken. ... lho injured .-man was 'a book-finisher, : and i was employed.by Messrs. Whitcombe,'and Xombs, Ltd. His. condition lyas critical. ' nop®, : <>f his, recovery . was' held '. Out.- rrom the. nature'of his injuries, it ; teems that the wheels of, the dray passed . over .his neck and head.- \ Canipbefi was v Biecent; arrival, from-'Auckland, and- had been in- the .employ. of Whitcpmbe and a: sbott. while. The accident happened in Colombo Street at 7.45 o'clock this nlorning; ;- . ,i ;. .^,. v •-

; GIVEN UP BY- THE SEA it. •' w -,jß'l l ! o P.„District ■ Coroner. ff/VS s afternoon regarding the death of Thomas.Southworth, builder and contractor, aged 46, whose body was found in the sea at 'New Brighton, on .The. virdict was that yjcraased was found drowne<l,' but ther6 was no evidence to show' how ho - got into the water. . b '

~ STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.. I - RIVER .DRAGGED IN VAIN. - ■ - ChristShUrch,.December 19 • An old man named Stephen Burgess d'is. appeared somewhat mysteriously from Kaiapoi this morning. At an early liour be spoke to' the caretaker- of-.the public bath, and shook hands with hitii, wishin*h™. sopd-bye. -.This, was - the' l 9 st '-timl that Mr. seen. Some time later, a walking-stick and pipe,' identified as his, property, .were-found on L the-sus-pension footbridge' over"' tho river,:-aiul near the articles was a fox-terrier, owned by. Mr. Burgess..,' ,Tho animal was wet and ditty, as if it had;been in the mud '? f /; e , river, and; the conclusion come to is that Burgess, who suffered from an internal complaint, which" had caiised him considerable anxiety, and regarding which he had told his friends, he would rather die, thanvgo. into: hospital,' must have : thrown himself- into the river. 'A- constable 'dragged .the river, during the' forenoon, but with no' success.' — -

i CYCLIST: FATALLY HUET BY CAE. ■ \ Christchurch, December -10 , . An inftue|t was' held, to-day: 'regirdinu' th© death oi Lestfir. Qreciij pl&stcrerj acrod • ..54., A verdicfe wft's retiTrned'.to the^offecfc .that."deceased, wfes-.Accitlent.-illv r -killed' bv ; . being.knocked off : his bicycle'by -a tramcar on the Ne,w .Brighton line : oh De- ; cem.ber 12. --'The evidence - showed that ■ Green, had • developed pneumonia in the i hospital, this /being .due to fractured „ rib... pe ; also sustained a "scalp wound ... end fracture of the skull. / FOUND DEAD. '.- v : :. Nelsorij.' December . 19. ." • A miner named Curnow, an elderly (lend iri; n" hut at' Blue '■"ii , ' V r . ■' " f ar. Murcliisbn, yesterday. , ile Had been ailing for some time. , '