ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FALL DOWN STAIRS. A resident of Petono, Mrs. Simmons* »fit with a serious accident yesterday morning, ami sustained severe wounds: OTttte head. It apuears that Mrs. Sitiiniews was inspecting some- rooms ; t/v6i the step occupied by Messrs.. fifaclvWrn unui, Co., at the- eoruejf .-of ■ Elizabeth mid JadisiMi Streets. Miss Blarfcbum -was in the shop and heard a ■ is-oiso. Oil going' hito tile passage she.' found that Mrs. Simmons was lying at tho foot of tho stairs. Dr. Wilkii-is was cii.ll.eij » and dressed the wtwrods, and then the injured woman was removed'to her l-sonio in Sydney Street. . WHAM , LABOURER INJURED:. . A'. Kails a wharf labourer, residing at Lower Hirtt, met with a severe accident whilst assisting to coal _ tire steamer Clan Mathcsoii at the King's ■Wharf, yesterday afternoon, lie was working on the- ..hulk Helen. Denny, whifili -was lying alongside the Homo »te'a-ilier,".wlien a trolly used for eonvey■iiig. ttiii IjasiketS across tlie liter's deck slipped off tlie rails anil fell to tho dbtj-kof the hails. Dftring its flight it' , struck Kail, with the restilt ih-afc life ■left.itni and left thigh were broken. On Dr. Hendry's arrival ho ordered the injured man's removal to the Hospital. ~. ' THE LIFT ACCIDENT. C, Blake, -the lad who Was caught in a jift at JJfessK. F. Cooler's wavohouso. Willis Strew, -oa Tuesday was reported from the Hospital last weiring as propressing fairly woft, THE HT3TT DISASTER. Jnmcs Tfn&in, who was olio of the viefiins o-f tlw Upper Hutt explosion, is new able to Hiovc about the Hospital ward, but wilJ not be able to retiirfl to bis home- for some tinig yet. A EEOENT COLLISION. John Hsiully, tejcgfajjli mess.eteger, .who sustained a .serious injnry through <:ttllisinw with attistbor cyolist en the, Taita-Hntt Read, Hisdorn-fflit a« ,o'pcratjoii.'nt Wclfiiigton Hospital yesterdas" fliovHijig, ami was renftrtfijl to be as tcoH as conk! be expected last- evenijig, GAR STRIKiSS BTRfift WORKMA.X. (Br Telesi'ijh.-PrcFS Associ^tiiiii.) . AuoMapd, April 30, A labourer nai'iisd Mreliacl Botiai*. ajrer) Cβ years, I'osicljjifr at Bpsoro, ihikl employed by tit? Tramway Company at excavating work close t<j the rails, was struck by a oar, and sustained injuries to his head reswhius in death. DADET WHO DROPPTISI) DEAD. jtrtereafgiri., April 30, •A cofov»ti -t s inquiry concerning tile deatJi of Thoß. Jl'Bfinnid, wlio dra.ppsd dead aftei' thf> parade of senior- cadets on thtt occasion of the inspection hy Sir lan Hamilten <jti. -lloiitky, was hoH to* day. 'flie medical 6?id&iflO was to the offeot. that the aortic valve was diseased iii 'ait extreme clegrcD, repi-osciitlng a pnrtictilar .form <?i itoaift urease in which sudden death, often occurs. Sueli diseas.o. was very rare in a. youtli of sevnntoc-n-. A verdict was rchiriifld in accoi'danee witli the Medical evklaftee,