FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 4252, 12 October 1876, Page 4

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

- The 'Press' has the following account of the two accidents recently reported by telegraph :—On-Saturday afternoon, a young girl named Ellen Sullivan, nineteenyears of age, •raployed as nursemaid, to Mrs G.Beatty, of the Q.C.E. Hotel, had been to the gardens ; with four T young children, and carried a r...... baby Jn her', arms. .About half-past two o'clock she was approaching the crossing tirom the footpath to Cathedral square, opposite Hobbs and- Co.'s corner, wben two ; eabs—oue" driven by a man named De ";'' Qersy, and the other by C. Crease—which had been, standing, on the west side of the aquare, and had been hailed by some person ,in front of Warner's Hptel, drove furiously towards V the crossing, but before they t«: reached it they cannoned against each other. Crease was the first to get •in front, and reached the crossing as the girl, who was preceding the children, left the footpath. Sha saw. the danger and fried to retreat, but before she could do so the off shaft of the cab struck her on the shoulder, turned her -T • tound, knocked the •■ baby out of her arms, and threw her down, and before the driver » «ould attempt to pull up, one wheel had - .passed over the right side of her neck and face. When picked up, she was breathing very heavily, the blood welling from her mouth, and in a few moments she expired. With the exception of' one leg being . slightly bruised, the baby by a miracle •scaped injury. . The victim of the kerosene lamp explosion at Lyttelton was the wife of Mr J. Jenkins, Coleridge street. On Friday night she was just retiring to rest, about 10 p.m., and had ' - aecasion to go from the bedroom to the kitahen. She had only her night-dress on, and was carrying a kerosene lamp, when by aome means, as she was passing through the feasage, it fell and broke into pieces, and the oil caught fire ard set alight her clothes and the paper on the wall. No doubt distracted with fear, there being no one in the kouse except Mr Jenkins, who has long been helpless, she ran out into the verandah. Mr Robinson, of Norwich Quay, was passing, and at once ran up to the house, tore off the burning _cloth.es, and extinguished the fire* and medical assistance was at once procured. All, however, was in vain, she was fearfully burned, and though conscious, never rallied from the shock, but expired between seven and eight on Saturday morning. Deceased was fifty-three years of age. It appeared that the reservoir of the lamp had been broken at some time and mended with putty or lead, and by some means had tumbled from the stand as she was Carrying