ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1094, 5 April 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

, : ORDEAL OF. A LITTLE GIRL. . [By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dargaville, April 4. ■Considerable uneasiness was lelt on Saturday and Sunday at To Kopuru over the mysterious disappearance of a little girl named Flossie Gate, five years of age, who is deaf and partially dumb. She was last seen playing with her little brother at 5.30 o'clock on Saturday evening, and no trace of her rould afterwards be discovered.. About 150 persons joined in a Search on Sunday, and their efforts were rewarded at 5.30, when she was discovered lying in a large gum hole, into which 6ho had crept for shelter from a prevailing storm. Though twenty-five hours without food, she was quite well and cheerful.

LITTLE GIRL SUCCUMBS. Wanganui, April 4. The little girl, Phyllis Clayton, who was run over by the Castlocliff train last evening, had an arm and foot amputated at.the Hospital, where she died this morning from shock. ,

CHRONIC ALCOHOLIC POISONING. ; Christchurch, April 4. •A man named Alexander Cairey, aged 42, resident at IGS Montreal Street, died suddenly at about 8 o'clock this morning. At the inquest evidence was given to the effect that deceased was a remittance man, and a chronic drunkard. He had been at Pakatoa, but, leading an exemplary existence, ho was released on probation. A sum of .£l5O remittance money, had accumulated meantime, and this ho spent in drink in a comparatively brief period. The house where deceased died was characterised by squalor and filth, things rotting on account of dirt. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, that decensed died from chronic alcoholic poisoning.

, CRUSHED BY A FALL OF EARTH. Dunedin, April 4. An elderly man named James Wright was completely buried by a fall of earth at the Catlins railway works to-day, being badly crushed and bruised. TIo was brought to the hospital to-night, but is in a low condition.

AX INJURED II AND. A single man named Fred. Rupsell, 20 years of age, residing at Russell Terrace, was admitted to th« hospital yesterday suffering with an injured lu>.n<l. Kussoll is a carpenter, and, while working at a planing his lingers ".ere caught. After his admission to the hospital, portion of two fingers bad to be amputated.