ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

/'.y,. DROWNED WHILE BATHING.;;/' ,* ':■' '.;■,■'.; (By Telegrapb.—Pross.Association.) : '., } X'.-Xv'X-'"- v.Waipawa, ■ January-'.17: X,l .-';■; : t ' ;L. .Ireland; : aged cight,.was accidentally. ;i ' ■*''.".' .drowned while bathing; ycsterdajvy' ■;;. ' 1 : '-XX; , .'.;,'! '< ■:^;;^ /; ,■:;';''• /'■ Invercdfgill,'January 17. ; - : j -'■'■'•,. I ■■ John and -Neil'.Moloney/were .working ':' ■ '-.in a gravel pit,nt'Myfpssbush' yesterday, ■•, when a subsidence occurred/ killing John -■'XX- ..' and severely, injuring ; his .brother,,,'. Do- ~ '.',■•■;' ceased was aged<2l^7; v'XX-'^XX'.'X'-X: 'U .XX 'XX- ' ;^HOEbEI'ALLS'ON: EIDEE...;.'' ■ ....;/ ■'..,.''■ "■'■""■ . Timarii, January 17. .., : . A 1 young 'man named Chalmers, had his : -.■:''■■' leg broken 5 , to-day by a.horseVrcaring and . ■• '" : falling.back upon .him.'/,:/'. X .'.■ ■ ■■'f_ ;';;•' '. ;• ''XX ■'. : ; v■ ■ CHILDEEN.AND A :GUN. ; ■''•;' ' Tirharu, January 17.'/ ; At Winchester' this-,evening two, boys, '■■. ■ Eric Wilks, aged nine; "arid his. cousin, ' aged eight, were playing : in a bedroom. '.'The younger picked up a gun which was loaded, and discharged it, the charge en-i ■'•'•,.- tering Wilks's back. He died almost im- .. mediately.. ''■:.' '. , , . . \ KNOCKED' DOWN' BY A TRAM; ' ' Aman named Harry Eadie, whoso ' father lives 'at' Wanganui, was knocked down by a tram'near the Royal./ Oak : ' Hotel shortly-beforo 5 o'clock yesterday. ■'..'■"•■ evening. Eadie received slight concussion' ■ -.'■ ' of the brain. He was" taken 1 to;the hos r ". :' '.;.' pital. '. . : . ' .'■. '■... STRUCK m A TEAM-CAE. < ■ A' man of whom nothing moro is known • !■'•■ than that his naruo is Eadie and that he ■ is a president of Aromoho was admitted to, the hospital at 5 p.m.'yesterday suffer--ing from slight concussion. : It 13 stated , that'ho descended from'a tram-car in mo- ■ tion, near tho Royal Oak Hotel, and that,failing to stop clear, ho was struck by the car and knocked down. His injuries ; ' -are not considered^serions.