ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 11 February 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.^ ■ 'vi t r . r u Auckland, February 10. Arnold son, of 1 Auckland, and his family, were motoring between Taupo and Wairaeki when the car skidded and went over a bank and capsized. Arnoldson’s youngest daughter, who fell Under the car, received rather serious injuries to her head. She was conveyed to the Lake Taupo Hotel to be medically attended. AUCKLAND WHARF FATALITY. Auckland, February 10. A fatal accident occurred on board the steamer Matatua at the railway wharf this afternoon, when a waterside worker named Ernest Alfred Bowles received such fearful injuries that he expired almost immediately. Deceased was working cargo in the hold when a case ■became detached from a sling and fell 35 feet, striking the unfortunate man a terrific blow on the left temple. Deceased, who was thirty-five years of age, leaves a wife and three children. The present makes a total of thirty accidents which have occurred to watcrsidors on the Auckland wharves since December 30, two of which have proved fatal. The watersiders decided at the last general meeting that in future all work should cease on the wharves for 24 hours in case of a member of the Union being killed or dying froip injuries received while working on the wharves. All shipping companies were notified to this effect. The secretary of the Union notified a reporter that, as far as he could at present state, the decision arrived at by his union would ho carried into effect in the present case.

GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. A young man named D, Sheehan, living near Paeroa, had a narrow escape from death recently. He was driving home along the To Aroha road in a. sulky, in which ho had a parcel containing lib of gunpowder, when a spark from a fire burning by the roadside -alighted on the gunpowder and caused it to explode. Sheehan’s clothes caught fire. With great presence of mind (reports the New Zealand Herald) he jumped into a swamp drain and extinguished the fire, which had a strong hold of his clothes. He unharnessed the horse from the burning sulky and went to a neighbouring house, arriving there in an exhausted condition. Dr G. T. Smith was summoned and attended Sheehan, who was very badly burned about the face, body, and arms, and was also suffering from shock.