ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

! 2. T* . \ f OAR GOES OVER BANK. ® DEATH OF DOCTOR'S WIFE. 3 (Br Telegraph.—Press Aeßoolatlon.j 3 Blonhelm, October IT. - .Thf wife of Dr. F. Elliott Meade was 0 killed instantaneously on the Avondale 5 R-oad early' this morning. A motor-oar , driven by Dr. Meade had reached the : 1 top of a steep incline with a eharp ' t turn._ Tho strain of the brake and the , j steering gear caused two of. the wheels , . to brea.lt, and the car rolled down tho f hillside. The. doctor was only, slightly ' f injured, but the wife fractured the base ■ - ;of her skull. Two young children are : 1 bereaved. 1 BURIED BY EARTH FALL. J * , Thames, October 27. 1 Edward Beale, aged 52, a married ■ ® man, was killed by a fall of earth in 1 ' the Tairua district. Deceased was en- 1 gaged on an excavation contract. Ho J J was. cohi?)letely (buried, and l was dead' I when extricated. j 1 . dAPSIZED IN RIVER. 1 fc Invercargill, October 27. \ ? On Sunday afternoon three men wero j - .crossing the New River in a v ed boat, which capsized. Two of them f succeeded in reaching the shore, but ) Patrick Hughes, a married ruan with . a family, was drowned. , > ■ ® FATALLY KICKED BY HORSE. | r Invarcarglll, October 27, John Young, a farmer at Mabel Bush, while attending horses, was kicked in s „ the stomach, sustaining injuries which s ) proved fatal. ; SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Invorcarglll, October 27. John Gibbs, .'aged eighteen, was rftb- t bit-shooting on Bay Road on Sunday c i when the gun of another ill tho party c . went off and i the contents lodged in v , Gibbs' thigh, inflicting a gaping wound 1 1 and shattering tho bone. Amputation ; . of the limb will probably be necessary. SEAMAN HURT. v ' G. Shart-y, a fireman on tho steamer b i Corinthic, fell from a derrick to the b . wharf yesterday afternoon an<J injured fi one of his logs, Ho is now in tho I Public Hospital. ! SERIOUS COLLISION. Nelson, October 27. A young man, a photographer, named: - Cameron, and a. recent arrival from Blenheim,, when riding a motor-cycle collided with a buggy this evening. Ha was removed to the Hospital, seriously c injured about tho head, and recovery is doubtful. . -jj