ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

o . A HOSPITAL CASE. A man named Marcus Levy, while riding along Tliorndon Quay yesterday morning, was thrown from Ins horso and sustained a- fracture of the right leg. Levy, who is 34 years of age, and lives at 37a Hopper Street, was removed to the Hospital, where he is reported to ba progressing favourably. DEATH PROM LOCKJAW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland,. February 2. A labourer named William Thomas Barrett died from tetanus at the Hospital. He ran a file into the sole of his right foot when digging iit his garden a week previously. SCHOOL GIRL DROWNED. Wanganul, February 2. A ochool girl named Marie Gilbertson Georgetti, aged 12, was drowned at . Castlecliff Beaoh to-day. The deceased was bathing with licr mother, and was ■ seen floating face downwards in shallow water. She was immediately brought ashore, but life "was extinct. A DOUBLE FATALITY. Tlmaru, February 2. A double fatality occurred this morn-. ing on a farm near Otaio to two Timaru men, brothers-in-law, named Vincent and Johnson, who were sinking a well on the farm of Mr. A. Nichol. They had got down 160 feet, and this morning one went down, and, giving no signal, his mate also went down to see' what was wrong, .and he also failed to signal. A third man, Noble Johnston, was lot . dbivn, but he signalled "Pull up," and ho was brought up :unconscious. , Some precautions were taken to clear out the gas, and Johnston went down again, but was again overcome. A fireman s smoko helmet was sent for from Timaru, and, wearin" this, Johnston descended, and both bodies were brought up during the afternoon. Vincent was a married man with two children; Johnson was single. . An inquest will be held to-morrow.