ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CITY CARRIER INJURED. Michael Bowe, a married man, re■sidihg at 20 Wallace Street, was admitted to the Hospital at 6.30 p.m. yesterday suffering: from concussion of tho brain. The injured man is a , carrier by occupation, and he was driving an express near tlie John Street-tip, commonly known as "Jam Tin Gully," when 1 the wheel' sudenly went down a. hole, or rut. The jerk caused/him-tq lose his- seat, and he was : precipitated heavily to the. ground,-with the-above result. ■ UPPER HIJ.TT DISASTER. On inquiry at the Hospital late last evening, it was ..reported that ttiere was> no'change in the condition of Virgil MiGpyer.n, who was injured in the recent Upper Hutt disaster. • '..'■■: :: GUN ACCIDENT.' TRIGGER CAUGHT'IiN- CLOTHES. (By Teleeraph.—Press Association.! ', . Hastings, April 14. 'A lad named John Chapman, aged 16, the eldest son of Mr. W. Chapman, met ■with a gun accident which might easily have had fatal results. It appears- that ,while looking for birds in a tree the lad rested 'the hutt of a pea rifle on the ground, and on.subsequently raising it the -trigger;, caught on the buttons of Oiis trousers. 'The.gun discharged, and the bullet entered his left, cheek, coming out over his-left eye, without, however, as far as is known, injuring the sight; ' ~ : . . : , r A'FIREMAN MISSING. . Wanganul, April 14. John Winters, a fireman on the steamer Putiki, has been missing since Sunday morning. He went'to bed on Saturday night, but. at 4 o'clock next morning it was found that he had disappeared,, clad .only in his sleeping garments. He is supposed to have gone into the river* ....■.■'..■ ,■