ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 8 July 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

LITTLE BOY DROWNED. [Per Press association J Gisborne, July 7. A little boy, three years old, named John O'Grady, son of a shepherd on Mr H. D. Buchanan's Wairere station, fell into a sheep dip a short distance from the homestead and was drowned. MOTOR COLLISION. Christchurch, July 7. A collision between a taxi-cab and a motor cycle with side-car attached, involving severe injury to three young people, occurred about midnight on Saturday at Buxton's Corner, on the New Brighton Road. Serious charges have been made by the cyclists as to the conduct of the' taxi cab driver after the accident. John Henderson, on his motor cycle, with Miss Olive Buick and Miss Ivy Turner in the side-car, were returning from New Brighton. When help arrived it was found that Miss Buick had her left leg and left hip broken; Henderson was severely cut and bruised all over the body; and Miss Turner had her knee dislocated, and was also badly bruised. They wer,o all suffering from shock, and from the effects of their exposure in the ,frosty night. An ambulance was obtained, and Henderson and'Miss Buick were taken to the Christchurch Hospital, while Miss Turner was sent to a private hospital.

INSTANTLY KILLED. Auckland, July 7. " The snapping of a steel chain, which was being used to hoist a large girder at the premises of the New Grand Theatre, which is now in course of construction in Little Queen Street, resulted in the instant death of Thomas Butland, construction worker, of Ponsonhy, this morning, while his companion, Bob Wilson, who was sitting at the other end of the girder, had an nlmosfc miraculous escape. Butland was thrown off, and toppled to the 'ground on to some heavy logs, sustaining a broken neck and leg, as well as other injuries to the bead. Death followed immediately. Wilson, by remarkable presence of mind, caught hold of some thin wiring that was running up the side of the wall. He managed to climb up this to the top of' the roof, and got away uninjured. The deceased, who was a single man, was l conveyed to the hospital, where an inquest will be held. It is believed that the sharp "snap" in the air this morning was the cause of the hoisting chain becoming brittle and resulting iin its breaking. .