ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2333, 15 December 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL KIOK FROM A HORSE. Dunedln, December 14. An inquest was held at Clarendon regarding the death of William George Stiller, a single man, aged GO. On Wednesday ho yoked up three horses to a roller and departed to work. As he did not return at lunch deceased's employer instituted a search and found deceased with tho left aide of his skull crushed in—presumably by a kiok from tho shaft horso in the roller. The medical evidence pointed to the fact that death must have been instantaneous. Evidence was given by a number of witnesses that the animal was commonly regarded as a kioker and was dangerous to work. A verdict of accidental death was returned, with a rider that the animal which caused the accident should be destroyed. An inquest was hold at Clarendon. Miller yoked up three horses to a roller and departed to work. As ho did not return at lunch time his employer instituted a search and found deceased with the left side of the skull crushed in, presumably as the result of a kick from the shaft horse in the roller. Medical evidence pointed to the fact that death must have been instantaneous. A CHILD ELECTROCUTED. Dunedin, December 14. Yesterday'- afternoon, Martin Lyons Park, aged nine, who was playing with two other children on reclaimed ground on the north side of the cement works, picked up a live wire and was instantly electrocuted. One of his compnaions who pulled the wire away from him must have had a most remarkable escape from a similar death. It is not known at present how the live wire

came to be on the ground at that place. At the inquest, the medical evidence showed that there was slight scorching of the right arm. The cause of death was paralysis of the heart muscles, resulting from shock. Park's wet hands and wet feet and wet clothing probably diverted the electric current into the body much more readily than would nave been the case if he had been dry. Other evidence showed that the wire which had fallen had bsen up only six months, and the corporation officials could not understand how it broke. A verdict of death from paralysis of the heart, following shock, was returned. A SHEPHERD DROPS DEAD. Carterton, December 14. John M'Leod, aged 60, dropped dead at Te Wharau yesterday. He was employed as a shepherd at M'Gregor's, Hikorangi, and had been medically attended for heart trouble. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Core, December 14. Wm. BloomfielcL aged 17, whoso parents live at Kennington, was accidentally killed on Friday evening at Pyramid. Bloomfield was returning home in the afternoon with a working team of liorscs attached to a disc plough. He. was found dead on the road. Evidently he had fallen under the disc. The back of his head was terribly braised and cut. The sufferer was conveyed to the Gore Hospital, but expired an hour after admission, never having regained consciousness. An inquest will be held.

KILLED BY A FALL OP EARTH. Reefton, December 14. A man named H. Nictolls, aged 40, a miner, working for his brother-in-law in Bolinhio's Cement Claim, at Crushington, was to-day killed by a fall of earth.•."• Nicholls leaves a widow and a young family of p our. CHILD FATALLY BURNED. . Invercarglll, December 14. Florence Josephine Wilson, aged five years, was fatally burned to-night. When standing before a fire her nightdress oaught alight,. She waß removed to.the Hospital, but died on arrival. SAILOR LOST' OVERBOARD. Invercarglll, December 14. John Stanley, sailmaker on the barque Irene, from Maiden Island, was washed overboard and drowned ten days before. the vessel made port. KILLED WITH A PEA-RIFLE. New Plymouth, December 12. A little boy, nine years of age, a son of Mr. Noble Taylor, farmer,' of Ingkv wood, while playing outside his fathers house this evening, was accidentally shot by the discharge of a pea-rifle by his brother, aged 19. The cartridge, had been' left in the rifle without the knowledge of the user. The bullet penetrated the brain, and the victim expired at the New Plymouth Hospital. QTJARRYMAN'S LEG FRACTURED. Invercargill, December 14. On Saturday night a young man named Edgar Armstrong was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg. It appears that he had been working in a quarry, and was shovelling earth into a dray when a fall of eartn from above resulted in his sustaining the injury. His condition is as satisfactory as can be expected.