ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BURIED UNDER QUARTZ. MINE STAGING COLLAPSES. 1 ' (By Telegraph.—Pr«Ks...Assfldation;); Waihl, December 12. Two miners named llitcliks and Woods, engaged underground in tho Crown mine, Karnngabake, were, owing' to a collapses of staging, precipitated down a pass. A rush of quartz accompanied them. . Woods- was completely buried, and when bis body was recovered life was extinct.' Ritchie was buried up to his armpits, and escaped with a slight bruising. OLD MAN DROPS DEAD, ChristGllUlXh, December 12.. Shortly before two o'clock- this "afternoon ail elderly man named James Scott, a resident of Ferry Road, Woolston, was walking "along Selwvn Terrace. Lytteitbn, with the intention of attending the funeral of an old friend, when he suddenly dropped dead on tile footpath. ' Deceased was it very old servant of tho Lyttelton Harbour Board, having been for many years' employed, on the d'rodgo Manchester, but- lately hy was placed on the casual labour list. CONSTABLE DROWNED. Auckland, December 12. Constable Carson, of the Auckland police, was drowned while bathing with two comrades off the Marino Parade at Devonport this afternoon, Deceased is a single young man with only two years' service, and bad not long been stationed in Auckland.

ACCIDENT AT WHARF. ■ A wharf labourer named Bart ■Ncilson hurt Siis leg while slinging bales of

wool in TJ shod at the wharf yesterday, Ho was attended by members of the St. John Ambulance and later conveyed to The Mansions in Ghugnco Street. ;