ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 4 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PAINFUL ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press AMocUtton. . Wanganui, Tuesday. A Wanganui lady pet with a painful accident last Tuesday. While standing " ! on a chair trying to locate a gag leak, she fell, breaking a wrist and two ribs, in addition to injuring her spine. Her condition is serious. HEART DISEASE. (ihristchurch, Tuesday. v Richard Blackburn, aged 52, died suddenly yesterday of heart disease, A TRAM CAR ACCIDENT. 1 . Wellington, Tuesday. $ Dennis Cronin, a cripple, wag knocked '• '? down by a tram car in Manners street '■> this evening, and had his skull fraotured. He was taken to the hospital. ■ 1 where he lies unconscious. A DRIVING FATALITY. $ i> „ v. . Greymouth, Tuesday. ...,•.& Bell, the victim of Friday's trap acri« '! 1 dent, succumbed this morning. SHOOTING ACCIDENT AT MAKABA ,i 1 • ' \ '*! , Wellington, Tuesday. ; 5 A man named Patrick Ryan, a single , j man employed at Lambton Station, was .■£ admitted to the Wellington Hospital on . Saturday night, suffering from a gunshot' wound in the foot. The injury was aeii- , A dentally self-inflicted at Makara on Sat- ''M urday evening. Ryan was out after toits with a gun. Coming down a steep "'Jffl hillside, his foot slipped on a loose stone, 'im and he fell. In falling he tried to throw 1 "8 his loaded gun clear, but in the effort i'vcl somehow pulled the trigger. The' charge exploded, and Ryan was shot in the When he was taken to the hospital one \:{jß toe had to be amputated.

A BOY KILLED. I? Dunedin, Last Night, ,iii A boy named John Perkins, four yearg 1 - old, was badly crushed by a log rolling on him at the Hunt road, Catling district, on December 26. He succumbed '■( to his injuries this morning. ; 4|

DEATH FROM HEART DISEABE. Nelson, La#t Night, Frank Raymond Thompson, 20 years of age, residing with hi# parents at Foxt ' hill, died suddenly this morning. • At the inquest a verdict of death from heart disease was returned.