ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1903, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

£ FB ruas ASSOCIATION. % .. Ibvkrcargill, January 19. £ An infant daughter, agad 21 months, f- of T. B. UcArthy, of Rivet-ton, has bean ran over by a trap and badly injured. tf Two m°n nomad Joseph Riven and Alfred Daplyn were drowned at Forta-- tw on Suuday evening. They went oat for a row, bat their beat swamped von the bar. Two others who ware in , tb*te»t were rescued in an exhausted condition.

Niw Tosk, January 18. An explosion of an 8-inch gun in '-the turret of the - American battleship " Massachusetts killed five men and in- ;* jored four others. The pinning accidentally caught, causing a discharge while the breech w«a open. Wxluhgiov, January 15. " A three year-old son of Sydney Weatherley, a settler at Bakaunni, fell into a bucket of hot milk on Saturday, and died whilst being conveyed to the hoepi*sl.

Dinnronr, January 19. Intimation has been received that a married woman named Elisabeth Ellen Mayhead drowned bar baby in a bath, and then committed suicide by lying on the top of the boy in the bath. The affair occurred at North East Valley, but particulars are, so for, meagre. Later particulars attribute the tra«*»r to insomnia, the unfortunate woman suffering from delusions and iaaomnis. j