ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 24, 27 January 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

BLOWN OUT TO SEA AND BACK. (Per Press Association.) Tirnaru, January 25. A seat and an oar from the boat, in which 1, two men were washed to sea at Rangitata, was found on the beach. LYSOL POISONING CASE. , Wellington, January 25. Lilian Mcllveen, single, about 34 years of age, employed as a bookkeeper at the Grand Hotel for the past three years, died this morning as the result of taking lysol. Deceased had been suffering from headaches and insomnia, and was in the habit of taking veronal to induce sleep. During the past week she had been attended by a medical man, who came to the conclusion that she was suffering from an overdose of the drug, but was then recovering. During the absence of hex sister, who had been looking after her, Miss Mcllveen this morning went out of her room, secured some lysol, and drank it.

DROWNED IN THE WANGANUI. Wanganui, January 25. A yachting adventure in the river, on Saturday evening cost a young man named W. G. Brown his life. Four young fellows —William Smith, Herbert Thom, Tim Cutfield, and W. G. Brown —were returning to town after a cruise, when their yacut struck a snag and sank. All the crew were in bathing costume. Thom and Cutfield swam out to a convenient launch. Brown became entangled in one of the stays of the boat. He was freed by Smith, and though assisted, could not reach the shore. The other two stayed out on the launch all night. Brown’s body was found to-day, one leg was cut where it had been entangled with the wire rope. Brown, who is 25 years of age,’ is a clerk for Dalgety and Co. He is the son of Captain Brown, of Papanui Road, Christchurch. PEA-RIFLE FATALITY. Napier, -January 25. A lad named Murrow, who some weeks ago accidentally shot himself with a pea-rifle while cleaning it, died in hospital. MOTOR CAR CAPSIZES. Invercargill, January 26. News was received to-day that Bartholomew Lynch, traveller, of Invercargill, was killed in a motoring accident’at Mataura Island this morning. Particulars are meagre, but it is understood that the motor car went over a bank, the occupnts being thrown out. There was another man in the car, but he escaped without injury.

i". TYRE BURSTS WITH FATAL RESULTS. Timaru, January 26. Through the bursting of a tyre, a fatal motor car accident occurred last evening four miles south of Timaru. The car was owned and driven by McFarlane, a farmer on the Waitaki. Charles H. Guthrie, stock agent at Waimate for the N.M. and A. Company, Was alongside him, whilst in the back seat was Harrison, a farmer at Waihao and two young daughters of McFarlane. The car capsized upon the men. The girls were thrown clear, unhurt, Guthrie, a married man, was killed, whilst McFarlane was very seriously hurt, sustaining a broken leg and ribs, and was also hurt in the head. Harrison was slightly injured, and is suffering chiefly from shock. McFarlane and Harrison were formerly of Rakaia. TWO TAXI-CABS COLLIDE. Wellington, January 26. A motor car accident of a serious nature occurred yesterday near the Silverstream bridge. Two cars were bound for the races, and it appears that one taxi-car was being taken, past the other. The latter got too far off the road, and in attempting to straighten it up the driver turned its head back on to the road too sharply, the result being that the two cars collided. One dashed clean through a wire fence, taking out the posts, and pulled up much damaged in the adjoining paddock. The other, which was also damaged, remained on the road. The occupants of both cars were thrown out violently. Joe Foster, the driver of one of the cars, was thrown through the wind screen- his right hip being severely lacerated. Mr W. M. Curtis, an American visitor, had his left arm broken. H. Brown suffered an injury to his back, and Higgins, another passenger, suffered from shock. Of those in the other car Messrs Gerald Stead and M. Murphy escaped with a shaking, but Harry Duff, of Hawke’s Bay, had several ribs broken. Mr. L. F. Cresswell met with an accident when motor-cycling into New Plymouth along the main South Road at Omata on Friday (states the ‘Taranaki Herald’). When at the Omata Hill ho ran into a galvanised wire which had been placed across the road, with the object apparently of direct-! ing traffic at the road works which are being carried out by the Taranald County Council. It is alleged that there was only a single wire across the road and that it was totally_ inadequate for the purpose for which it was intended, as people could not see it in the glare of the sun until they were right on top of it. Mr. Cresswell, though he did not receive any serious injury, was severely shaken. One or two motor-cars narrowly escaped coming to grief.