ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Cambridge, Juno 10. The four-year-old son of Geo, Price, a Kuritpiro settler, wan burned to death through his clothes catching lire while liis parents were absent milking. Kketaliuna, June 10. By a lniggy accident caused through the horses bolting at Tiraumea.the driver, named Hansen, was rendered unconscious, and still remains so. Mrs Holmes was also rendered unconscious, but recovered. The others were knocked about more or less. Paliiatutt, June 10. Mr John Bearfort, surveyor, fell downstairs, nnd died at the hospital. He leaves a grown-up family. Wellington, June 10. At an inquest to-day concerning the death of a woman who expired at a. city restaurant on Saturday, the jury found that death was caused hy pneumonia, followed hy heart failure. There was no direct evidence of identification, hut from a communication received from" Mnsterton, deceased was supposed to bo Annie Bobbins.

Invercargill, June 10. The post mortem on Arnold James Kingskmd, the boy who died under chloroform while having teeth extracted, discloses healthy organs, and the doctors could not explain the occurrence of death. At the inquest, a verdict of death under chloroform, no blame being attachable to anyone, was returned. Napier, June 10, A fatal trap accident occurred at Beliine this evening. A trap containing two married ladies named Marshall, and the infant son of one of them, was proceeding through a cutting near Wairoaiti, n short distance, from l'etane, when tlia horse attached to the trap commenced kicking, with the result that the vehicle was capsized and the occupants thrown out. The baby was killed Instantaneously, his skull being fractured. The child was 10 months' old.

Wanganui, Juno 10. A serious trap accident occurred in Victoria Avenue this afternoon, resulting in serious injury to an elderly settler named Samuel Wilson, a resident of Mars Hill. As the result of a collision, lis-was thrown out, and sustained concussion. At a late hour this evening, ho had not resovered consciousness. Auckland, Juno 10. A terrible tarn fatality occurred in the city to-night, the victim being Harry Elder, a man about 40 years of age- He was a painter, and resided ft Freeman's Bay- It is believed he w.ig a passenger by the troincar which ran over him, and that he got on* at corner of Victoria ami Nelson streets,* where the accident occurred. lie vm ■ knocked down and dragged about 20 yards. When extricated, a work that took about 15 minutes, lie was found to be dead, the body being terribly mutilated. A pathetic feature was that a son of the victim, quite unoonsciouß that it was his father, assisted to extricate the body.