ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SEAMEN'S PLUCKY ACTION

RESCUE MAN FROM DROWNING.

Had it, not' been for the prompt action of itwo other seafaring men, an able-bodied l seaman on the Shaw-SaviU liiier Karamca would liave been in Very serious,.difficulties yesterday afternoon. A man named Donnelly was standing on' a! stagings over the side- of the' Kararnea, "painting ship. ,. Ho endearoiired to' reach the deck of . the'i steamer, and in doing' so cither-missed his footiug or overbalanced' and fell into the.' water. Immediately the cry, ■ "Man overboard!" was raised. '.Lieut.Commarider Dennistoun, R.N., who is nc,ting-'as":>transport .ioilieer on hoard Troopsliip• No. i (the Tahiti), was , on the: geek of. his ship at the time, and he immediately plunged over tie side as he Btoodj and swam to the drowning man's assistance, a distance of 50 or 60 yards. At the. sametimo a quartermaster on the Karamoa." named St. Clair Jones, seeing. Donnelly's predicament, swam to the Lieutenant-Commander's assistance. After a good.deal, of troublo 4 the.,two rescuers managed to .pass a .line round Donnelly,'and subsequently he wag <hauled'aboard* the ship in.an exhausted •condition. .(• The spectators applauded the plucky action of the.rescuers.

■V . SKELETON .-IDENTIFIED, The remains of the man found on the hills above Melling railway station on Sunday were identified yesterday by Messrs. W. and D. Taylor, as that .of their father, Fred. R. Taylor, commer* cial traveller, of Nelson Street, Petono, aged- 54, who disappeared on December 10, 1912. The means of identification were a cardigan jacket, spectacles and case, and'false teeth." An inquest will be held at Wellington'this afternoon at 4': o'clock.', .-■*.■ S 'FALL FROM A CRANE. A married man named James Bright more; living at 95 Constable Street, was admitted to the Hospital . yesterday, •ufferiug from a' rather severe shaking received through his falling from a crane on the wharf in the afternoon.'

.FALL DOWN A SHAFT. MINER LOSES HIS LIFE,' ..■■.. : Reefton, September 29. '.' :-WJ Beale, a-married man with three children, a miner in the > Blackwater mines, was sent down to No. 7 .level to do repairs at , 11 a.m. yesterday. He was missed later, and in the afternoon his body was found in the water at the bottom of the shaft with the neck broken. It is presumed he .slipped down the shaft. This is the first fatal accident at ; .Blackwater mines since. the start. . : -..■'-. '. .