ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 91, 6 April 1908, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

STAMPEDE OF HORSES AT I'ALMER STON. NEW PLYMOCThTaDY SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Per Press Association. Palmerston X., Last Night. Owing to a stampede of scleral cabs and buggies at the railway station on the arrival of the Wellington train at 7.30 pan. yesterday, Mrs. Gordon K,-id of Wellington, was injured; )[i, .Mann.,' Jones, of New Plymouth, had her rrl.s on both sides broken, one |H-neiratni.. the lungs. Her condition i, serious'" Mm Reid, however, will mover iiuwnrK-' I •d, though her teeth were driicn through her lower lip by a blow of some •art, and she is much bruU'd. rhe I wound in the lip was successfully M .wn •p. llr. and Miss Gonlo u Reid were It one of the cabs, but as il was liolting ■Mr the railway where an engine was •MToaching they jumped out. [Miss Jones is a member of the lirni •f Misses Jones, grocers, etc., Devon •treet. Her two -sisters, who were apprised of the accident late last cvenin» ieav« by this morning's mail train {or Palmerston.]

FOUXD DROWNED. Dunedin, La,t Night. The body of a man named Joseph Juender «4 years of age, was found in the harbor underneath the cross wharf this afternoon. Deceased was addicted to drink, and was released from ir.iol only a few days ago, after serving a V tente of seven days for drunkenness"

KILLED BY A MOTOR CAR. »■ * v ..jy ellin gto'i, Last Night. , Murdoch Gillies, a telegraph operator employed in the Wellington office, was killed on the Hutt road this afternoon. He was cycling along the road with a companion, and, in attempting to cross in front of a motor car, was knocked flown, the ear passing over his body. He expired almost immediately. The car I was owned by Goring JoWtoii and I driven by a ehalicur named Bailm-. The occupants of the car were Johnston and K Grace and two ladies. Gillies •was '_'!> years of age, unmarried, and was the son of a farmer at Tapanui.

An unfortunate accident oreurreil at Strathniore about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning (says the Stratford IV*t") ■when a man named Fred Myers was burnt by some gunpowder, 'which he was carrying, exploding. Myers, with other workmen, was engaged' in blasttag operations, and had loaded th r hole and lit the fuse. He was taking a bag containing alwut 25 pounds of gunpowder to a safe place, when, through some unaccountable cause the powder exploded, burning his face and arms. Ills unites, with the assistance of Mr. Calvert, did the best they could for the •sufferer and despatched him to Stratford, where he was admitted to the hospital. It is thought the explosion was caused by a spark from the fuse dropping on the powder bag.