ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 18 October 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

BLASTING AT MOKAU. (Per Press Association.) Mokau, Thursday. Two men, named C. Guilson and Jack Lundy, engaged in road work at the Kiwi Hoad, Okau, were badly injured this morning as the result of a blasting accident. The charge blew out of an adjacent drill, and fell into a keg of powder, where the men were standing. Both the injured men, after hawing their injuries dressed, were conveyed to the New Plymouth hospital. FATALITY AT DUNEDIN. Dunedin, October 17. Norman AVesley Helmsley, a young man employed as train examiner on the railways, met with a sudden death in the goods yards about 3 o’clock this afternoon. It appears that Helmsley was standing on some trucks which wore being shunted towards him. Apparently he failed to notice his danger, and was knocked down by a truck. The train was at once stopped, but the first truck had run over him, cutting him badly. He was dead when picked up. The deceased was 27 years of age, and resided at Mornington with his mother. An unusual accident occurred on Saturday morning at Freeman’s Bay reclamation (says the Auckland Star). A valuable draught horse was attached to a dray loaded with spoil, which was being backed towards the tip near the Parker-Lamb Timber Company’s property by the driver, a man named Thomas Green. By accident the draj was back too far, and the wheels went over the edge of the bank, causing horse and vehicle to capsize backwards into deep water. Green was also carried over, but, luckily, was flung to one side, and managed to scramble ashore. As the tide was unusually high at the time, the horse was completely out of its depth, and was drowned almost immediately. It was valued at about £SO.