ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 193, 17 June 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FIB riBSS ISKWtAfIO*. Wkstpokt, June 18. Thres men—Allen, H*y, and W*V ford-working on tha N«»w B>pe-mal at Denniston, had a na-row escapeftoM death yesterday. Tney. had cba'ged i a hole with I3lbs of gelignite, aw were tramping in the uhtrgi when It exploded. Allen was out and broittd about the f<tc *, and hal a finger smashed, which la'er had to be am {totaled, H«y escaped with a saver* shock, and Watford was qntte unfa armed. The causi if the explosion la attributed to the geliguite blooming frczsn. Miss Potter, of Reetton, who «U Ml a visit to Graoity Oreak to attend A wedding, to?k a fit of coughing lad night, broke a blood veassl and died. CHBTSToauacB, June 10. A ohild named Charles WoQlbtflL eighteen months of oge, ohoktd hinted! with a pitca of breid. At the inqittlt to-day the jury returned a verdict of accidental dea h. Wisauftri, Jan* 16. The body of a woman of about fifty years of ag* was found yesterday on the Waitotara beach, but his not yat heen identified. An accident ocoured to-day by which a four-year-old boy, nam»d Patrick Brownlie, was killed. Tha little felhw with his sister, aged two, war* swinging from the back of a spriog trap when the trap tipped and fell oi ha boy's chca", killing him ina'ancane.us'y.